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It leaves you filled with peace, and the house filled with one of the world's sweetest smells. But it takes a lot of time. If you can find that, the rest is easy. And if you cannot rightly find it, make it, for probably there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

Next discussion on the #BacklistedPodcast and I need to read it fast!

If you are not in a state of emergency, but merely living as so many people have lived for many months now...you will be able to make very good meals indeed for the people who live with you. ...Use as many fresh things as you can, always, and then trust to luck, and your blackout cupboard and what you have decided, inside yourself, about the dignity of man.

Oof. I can understand the publisher's choice to do this -- footnoted information is a bitch to read digitally -- but reading these copious bracketed asides is no picnic. I'd be happier working with a print copy in the footnote format, or the original 1942 publication.

Potatoes, like most other vegetables and animals, soon die when their skins are removed.

I went on a MFK Fisher binge in my 20s which is weird since I'm not a foodie and don't read food writing now. ? But she is credited with revolutionizing food writing and I think that intrigued me.
I learned the expression "keep the wolf from the door" from her.
#wolves #junetunz @Cinfhen

Interesting for the historical perspective, but for modern cooks in modern kitchens I would certainly pick Tamar Adler's An Everlasting Meal for more practical advice.

When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts.