The Pleasures of Eating: “I mentioned earlier the politics, esthetics, and ethics of food. But to speak of the pleasure of eating is to go beyond those categories. Eating with the fullest pleasure – pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance – is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.”
Full essay from What are people for? by Wendell Berry
It’s this time of year, during the transition from summer to fall, that the best thing to do is cook the bounty over hot flames.
