Post by MarikaDid not miss Tom Nichols any time he is on
He saturates his easter lamb with garlic
“Sure. Or anything else really. See, first you have to understand your
ingredients. Like, garlic watches TV in its undershirt and sweats at work.
Cinnamon is a southern belle. Those two don’t go together. Onions are
hard-core romantics with a defensive cynicism. It’s like a party. You bring
all these characters together in such a way as to create a new, overall
identity—a different taste than any one of them alone, but they all
contribute to it. In things like stew you achieve a successful group
therapy, but in sauces or gravy you get them right off to Nirvana.”
“So what’s the one recipe?” I asked.”
Excerpt From
Toad
Katherine Dunn