Cooking for One

There is something horridly indulgent about spending 2 hours cooking dinner for just yourself. Timing everything so that it is all finished at the exact same moment, balancing seasoning, slicing and chopping, testing, and finally plating your food so that it looks attractive. Only to sit down alone with headphones and the literary supplement from the Sunday paper. To cook for two is an act of love, for a crowd, an act of family. What is it to cook for yourself, rather than heating up a can of soup and crackers?

This is what I thought about while making chicken adobo, rice, and vegetables for myself this evening. Probably the most I’ve used my brain all day. I kept meaning to get stuff done, but instead I putzed on the net, finished my novel, and took a nap. Ah well, there is always tomorrow.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses Quotes

I enjoyed this book, though I must say that the Marquise de Merteuil got a much rougher deal in print than either on stage or screen, in fact everyone got a rougher deal, except maybe Valmont and Madame de Tourvel, because they were both dead. Unlike some of my other fiction purchases here in the UK, this one's coming home with me.
Any memorable quotes that also show up in the movie are not here because, basically because I am lazy
Now that I have no fiction left to read, perhaps I will get some real work done.

Don’t you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?
- Letter 10 The Marquise de Merteuil to the Vicomte de Valmont
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
By Choderlos de Laclos

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