The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking.
My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.
Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.
Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.
And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.
I suppose you can't take kids into consideration all the time, but I just wish there could be a bit of flexibility.
I met my first turkey at an animal sanctuary in 2000. The sanctuary owner brought out a turkey named Olivia who had been rescued from a factory farm. As I sat on the grass and reached out to pet her, she climbed into my lap and fell asleep. I was flabbergasted and charmed.
Frustration is not the way to go.
. . . More than almost any current book, DTU will wake the reader from his dogmatic slumbers. It is eminently readable, challenging, and provocative.