No physical appearance is worth not eating pasta for.
— Matt Haig, with “One Beautiful Thing” in “The Comfort Book” (Penguin Life, July 6, 2021)
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Tag: dinner
Oh, I need it! Oh, I need your help!
soft bread, the smooth sauce soaking through all of it
These urban wanderings are punctuated by brief pauses in the cafés of Neukölln to down a quick beer; prolonged pauses in the lines outside kebab shops at lunchtime, long queues…there are more kebab shops here than McDonald’s. Mauro will taste more than thirty during his stay, finally deciding on his favorite—made in a van at the Mehringdamm U-Bahn station. Crunchy slices of meat, sweet grilled onions, crisp fries, soft bread, the smooth sauce soaking through all of it, and hot, hot, hot: the perfect fuel.
~ Maylis de Kerangal, The Cook (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 26, 2019)
Photo: geschmacks of Döner Kebab Groß
Here I was, I thought, living.
Things were better at home when a chicken roasted in the oven or eggs cooked in a hot buttered pan… Cooking was a meditation, I thought. It anchored me in my body—here was my hand, holding a knife, slicing through celery. Here I was, standing on the black and white kitchen tile of my first apartment in Brooklyn, listening to records, making dinner. Here I was, I thought, living.
~ Sarah McColl, “Joy Enough: A Memoir.” (January, 2019)
Notes: Image: Better Homes & Gardens – Perfect Fried Eggs. Prior Sarah McColl posts
Dinner (w Family)
The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.
– C.S. Lewis, from The Weight of Glory
Photo: Gabriel Maglieri with “Family”