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There Are Pockets Of Great Food In Spain, But There Are Also Pockets Of Very Mediocre Food In Spain, And The Same In Morocco And The Same In Croatia And The Same In Germany And The Same In Austria.

Food, Like Most Things, Is Best When Left To Its Own Simple Beauty.

When I Was A Child, Our Whole Family Cooked. All My Cousins Cooked. All My Aunts And Uncles Cooked. It Was Part Of Our Heritage.

You Sit Down At Katz's And You Eat The Big Bowl Of Pickles And You're Eating The Pastrami Sandwich, And Halfway Through You Say To Yourself, I Should Really Wrap This Up And Save It For Tomorrow. But The Sandwich Is Calling You: Remember The Taste You Just Had. So Fatty. It's What You Want. It's What You Are! I've Never Gotten Home From Katz's With A Doggie Bag In My Hand. A Pastrami Sandwich At Katz's Is What's Bad And Good About Food. It's The Sacred And The Profane.

If You Go To Italy And You Drive From The Airport To The Town, There Isn't 30 Square Feet That Isn't Planted By Someone. Even Next To The Train Tracks, They See The Joy Of The Interaction With The Planet As Integral To The Experience. The Idea That You Can Get Free Arugula Just By Planting Seeds... Because It Will Regrow Itself The Next Year. We've Come A Long Way From Foraging To Now Planting. The Next Step Of That Will Be Continuing That Expansion Of Planting And Really Owning The Crops.