But cooking is best approached from wherever you find yourself when you are hungry, and should extend long past the end of the page. There should be serving, and also eating, and storing away what's left; there should be looking at meals' remainders with interest and imagining all the good things they will become.

There is great value in being able to say "yes" when people ask if there is anything they can do. By letting people pick herbs or slice bread instead of bringing a salad, you make your kitchen a universe in which you can give completely and ask for help. The more environments with that atmospheric makeup we can find or create, the better.

I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.

This would be like sitting down at dinner and eating only vitamins instead of having a meal.

I could smell the food fill up my hunger before the order was even
placed.

I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.