"Language simply isn't expansive enough to capture the essence of a practice as corporeal or sensory--not to mention brimming with as much history, tradition, memory, and nostalgia--as cooking." (18)

"I've come to think of recipes not as rigid prescriptions but as 'rituals that promise transformation,' as the poet and pie-maker Kate Lebo so beautifully put it." (19)

— Good Things by Samin Nosrat (Page 18 - 19)