a bit of food philosophy

-- September 30th, 2010 --
cauliflower and beets roasted

I’ve devel­oped the begin­nings of a life phi­los­o­phy: con­trast brings happiness.

After a week of solid rain, there is noth­ing so wel­come as a dose of sun­shine.  But by the same token, after an unbro­ken period of blue skies, wak­ing to the pat­ter of rain on the win­dowsill is inex­press­ibly cozy.

Or take soli­tude.  Today I am on my own all day because John’s gone off on one of his archi­tec­tural jaunts, Avery has a long school day with play rehearsal at the end.  And it’s strangely pleas­ant here with no one to talk to, no dis­trac­tions from what­ever my agenda is.  But come tomor­row and I’ll be glad enough to drive down to Southamp­ton with John and spend the day with my dear friends Lilith and Janice.

And what could be bet­ter after a long day’s blog­ging, cook­ing and laun­dry than a lit­tle cat­nap with Hello! mag­a­zine open beside you?  If you hadn’t worked so hard, the nap wouldn’t be any fun.

Con­trast.

So nat­u­rally, being me, I’ve extended this phi­los­o­phy to my pri­mary job: think­ing about food, shop­ping for food, cook­ing, eat­ing and then talk­ing about food.  And what more…