Moral cookery
“The intimate influence of conscientious cookery,” he wrote, “promotes the serenity of mind, the graciousness of thought, and that indulgent view of our neighbour’s failings which is the only genuine form of optimism. Those are its titles to our reverence.”
– Julian Barnes quoting Joseph Conrad in the final piece of his Pedant in the kitchen series – which, yes indeed, lives up to its name.
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