Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Food #16, Order of the Universe #35

All culinary tasks should be performed with reverential love, don’t you think so? To say that a cook must possess the requisite outfit of a culinary skill and temperament—that is hardly more than saying that a soldier must appear in uniform. You can have a bad soldier in uniform. The true cook must have not only those externals, but a large dose of general worldly experience. He is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.

Norman Douglas, South Wind (1917)

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Maps #1, Death #7, Christianity #10

As West and East
In all flatt Maps—and I am one—are one,
So death doth touch the resurrection.

John Donne, “Hynme to my God in my Sicknesse” (c. 1630)