On Food Writing
Before you ask, no this isn’t a photo of me, it’s the daughter of a family friend, picking Asian pears in the orchard.
“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?
They ask it accusingly, as if I were somehow gross, unfaithful to the honor of my craft.