What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, ! It's a sure thing! It's sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles.
Nora Ephron Heartburn
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Nora Ephron, in her book "Heartburn," expresses her profound love for cooking as a source of comfort and certainty in an unpredictable world. After a demanding day, the act of creating a dish by melting butter, combining it with flour, and adding hot stock offers a sense of assurance. This simple process stands out as a reliable outcome amidst the chaos of life, providing a personal refuge where one can find solace in predictable results.

Ephron highlights the significance of those small, certain moments in life, especially for those who seek stability. Cooking becomes not just a routine but a deeply satisfying activity that contrasts with the complexities of daily challenges, similar to solving a crossword puzzle. Her words resonate as a reminder of how fundamental kitchen rituals can offer both tranquility and a connection to the reassuring aspects of life.

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But the story I'm telling here began the day I discovered the affair between Mark and Thelma, and it ended exactly six weeks later. It has a happy ending, but that's because I insist on happy endings; I would insist on happy beginnings, too, but that's not necessary because all beginnings are intrinsically happy, in my opinion. What about middles, you may ask. Middles are a problem. Middles are perhaps the major problem of contemporary life.
Nora Ephron Heartburn
But the story I'm telling here began the day I discovered the affair between Mark and Thelma, and it ended exactly six weeks later. It has a happy ending, but that's because I insist on happy endings; I would insist on happy beginnings, too, but that's not necessary because all beginnings are intrinsically happy, in my opinion. What about middles, you may ask. Middles are a problem. Middles are perhaps the major problem of contemporary life.
You'd be amazed how little choice you have about loony bins.
Nora Ephron Heartburn
You'd be amazed how little choice you have about loony bins.
When I first met him, he had a recurrent nightmare that Henry Kissinger was chasing him with a knife, and I said it was really his father, and he said it was really Henry Kissinger, and I said it was his father and he said it was Henry Kissinger, and this went on for months until he started going to the Central American shrinkette, who said Henry Kissinger was really his younger sister.
Nora Ephron Heartburn
When I first met him, he had a recurrent nightmare that Henry Kissinger was chasing him with a knife, and I said it was really his father, and he said it was really Henry Kissinger, and I said it was his father and he said it was Henry Kissinger, and this went on for months until he started going to the Central American shrinkette, who said Henry Kissinger was really his younger sister.
Well, at least this time I get to be a person in the story. The last time you told one of your Russian parables I was a bag of chickens.
Nora Ephron Heartburn
Well, at least this time I get to be a person in the story. The last time you told one of your Russian parables I was a bag of chickens.
{S}ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn't cross your mind until it's too late. {Once, for example, when I was just starting out in the food business, I was hired by the caper people to develop a lot of recipes using capers, and it was weeks of tossing capers into just about everything but milkshakes before I came to terms with the fact that nobody really likes capers no matter what you do with them. Some people to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in in.
Nora Ephron Heartburn
{S}ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn't cross your mind until it's too late. {Once, for example, when I was just starting out in the food business, I was hired by the caper people to develop a lot of recipes using capers, and it was weeks of tossing capers into just about everything but milkshakes before I came to terms with the fact that nobody really likes capers no matter what you do with them. Some people to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in in.
I must try this again, I thought; I must try again someday to sit still and not say a word. Maybe when I'm dead.
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I must try this again, I thought; I must try again someday to sit still and not say a word. Maybe when I'm dead.
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What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, ! It's a sure thing! It's sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles.
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What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, ! It's a sure thing! It's sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles.
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