https://crystal.castle.cc/tag/gastronomical-me/ Recent content in Gastronomical Me on adventures of an omnomnomnivore in NYC Hugo en-US Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:49:29 -0400 https://crystal.castle.cc/2010/06/09/on-food-writing/ Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:49:29 -0400 https://crystal.castle.cc/2010/06/09/on-food-writing/ <p><a href="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/115_1524.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-155" title="115_1524" src="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/115_1524.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></a></p> <p><em>Before you ask, no this isn&#8217;t a photo of me, it&#8217;s the daughter of a family friend, picking Asian pears in the orchard.</em></p> <p>“People ask me: Why do you write about food, and eating and drinking? Why don’t you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way others do?</p> <p>They ask it accusingly, as if I were somehow gross, unfaithful to the honor of my craft.</p>