F ROM M A R K E T T O TA B L EA S TO R Y O F F O O D

M A R K E T F R E S H

B A G U E T T E

C H E R R Y TO M ATO E S

D I J O N M U S TA R D

E G G S

G R E E N O N I O N S

G R U Y È R E

O R A N G E S

PA N C E T TA

PA R M E S A N

P E P P E R

P U F F PA S T R Y

S A LT

S T R AW B E R R Y P R E S E R V E

W H I P P I N G C R E A M

A N D LOT S O F C O F F E E

The stories, like the food that fed them, cast lines of relation to all these places and the crea-tures living in them, drawing them all together on this table, on these plates, in what began to feel a little like a ceremony. The meal had become just that, for every item on our plates pointed somewhere else, telling a little story about nature or community. Such storied food can feed us both body and soul, the threads of narrative knitting us together as a group.

MICHAEL POLLANThe Omnivore’s Dilemma

One of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a sto-ry, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.

M.F.K. FISHERThe Gastronomical Me