'As when you begin to live'
Adam Gopnik, on cookbooks, gives the graf of the food issue:
The desire to go on desiring, the wanting to want, is what makes you turn the pages — all the while aware that the next Boston cream pie, the sweet-salty-fatty-starchy thing you will turn out tomorrow, will be neither more nor less unsatisfying than last night’s was. When you start to cook, as when you begin to live, you think that the point is to improve the technique until you end up with something perfect, and that the reason you haven’t been able to break the cycle of desire and disillusion is that you haven’t yet mastered the rules. Then you grow up, and you learn that that’s the game.
January 1st, 2010 at 10:00 PM
[...] hate posting the last graf of an article, but once again Adam Gopnik leaves me no choice. From his latest piece, on van Gogh and Gauguin: It’s true that [...]