My patient friends, in the wake of the last few busy years, this has been a blessedly quiet one so far. I’ve been learning again how to listen to quiet, to all the stories it alone can tell. When cooking dinner, I’ve just been cooking dinner…not wanting to photograph it or compose sentences about it in my head. I’ve been relearning how to cook by whim…not measuring anything, not worrying how a dish will translate to “Recipese.” I’ve rediscovered the intimate satisfaction, alchemy-like, of scrounging together bits of this and that from what seemed a bare cupboard or refrigerator, and producing a singularly splendid meal that could never be repeated. I’ve been following other kinds of recipes, turning my attention to new sources of inspiration…and yes, I am looking forward to telling you about them. (more…)
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