Thanks to Terry Teachout for the following from foodlosopher MFK Fischer…
“There are very few men and women, I suspect,
who cooked and marketed their way through the past war without losing
forever some of the nonchalant extravagance of the Twenties. They will
feel, until their final days on earth, a kind of culinary caution:
butter, no matter how unlimited, is a precious substance not lightly to
be wasted; meats, too, and eggs, and all the far-brought spices of the
world, take on a new significance, having once been so rare. And that
is good, for there can be no more shameful carelessness than with the
food we eat for life itself. When we exist without thought or
thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts.”
M.F.K. Fisher, How to Cook a Wolf
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genevieve 11.27.05 at 6:36
I’d love to appreciate meat more. I think I need to go vegan for a while. It’s terrible when you find yourself eating for emotional reasons, and not simply for sustenance of a more concrete kind. Thanks for this link.