“If more of us valued food and cheer and songs above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
“I have a comfortable home. My appetite is perfect, and I have plenty of food to gratify it. I sleep every night like a boy, for I haven’t a trouble in this world to disturb me.”
“If you could understand a single grain of wheat, you would die of wonder.”
“Whatever happens during the day, I do my best to cook an evening meal… The worst part is working out what to make.”
“We eat around the table together like this most nights, a family ritual, a coming- together. It feels wrong if someone is missing.”
“I like looking at cookbooks for inspiration and presentation ideas, but the bulk of my cooking is done by instinct and either buying fresh seasonal ingredients or using up what I already have in the freezer, basing my meals around good- quality meat. I don’t want a recipe that calls for lots of things I don’t have, so I tend to avoid cooking from a book. I have learned how to cook from trial and error, watching and copying, substituting ingredients according to my family’s tastes, and experimenting.”
