Eating, and hospitality in general, is a communion, and any meal worth attending by yourself is improved by the multiples of those with whom it is sh….

There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our days and seeps into o….

We are all doomed to seek our own happiness; we can't help ourselves. We are all, the cruel and the gentle alike, condemned to seeking that happiness….