Food is not some fuel we need to get us going to higher things. Cooking is not a drudgery we put up with in order to get the fuel delivered. Rather, each is a heart's astonishment. Both stop us dead in our tracks with wonder.
Even more, they sit us down evening after evening, and in the company that forms around our dinner tables, they actually create our humanity.—Robert Farrar Capon (The Supper of the Lamb)
