It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well have not at lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
I have a 10 year old at home, and she is always saying, “That’s not fair.” When she says that, I say, “Honey, you’re cute; that’s not fair. Your family is pretty well off; that’s not fair. You were born in America; that’s not fair. Honey, you had better pray to God that things don’t start getting fair for you.
The hands, Dario says, are everything. With them, cooks express themselves, like artists […] Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.
Bill Buford in Heat
