I'm an ex-pat Southerner stuck in Fairbanks, Alaska. It's very cold and very dark here for much of the year. I spend the long winter nights dreaming of all the places I wish I could visit and what I would like to eat there. I cook to stay sane.
"Gourmandism is far from unbecoming to the ladies: it agrees with the delicacy of their organs, and acts as compensation for certain pleasures which they must deny themselves." -Brillat-Savarin in "The Physiology of Taste"
“Writers who really write for home cooks are very often displaced people who are in search of their past; they want to recover it to celebrate it and share it.”
-Judith Jones