{"id":12131,"date":"2019-10-02T10:10:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T14:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12131"},"modified":"2019-10-02T10:10:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T14:10:40","slug":"everyone-loves-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12131","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Loves Food"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile I was writing\u00a0<em>The Lost Family<\/em>, I cooked a lot\u2014to meditate on the day\u2019s writing as well as to kitchen-test all the recipes I then featured on the book\u2019s menu. Some of my favorite lines for the book would bubble up that way, as if from a Magic 8-Ball, and one of them was \u2018vegetables have no language.\u2019 I revised this slightly for the novel, but it means that food is universal. The produce and spices will vary from country to country and cuisine to cuisine, but if you love food, you have a vast family out there. We can all communicate about how our beloved dishes are different\u2014and how they are the same.\u201d &#8211;  Jenna Blum,\u00a0<em>The Lost Family<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crystal King, whose book about Vatican chef Bartolomeo Scappi,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/The-Chefs-Secret\/Crystal-King\/9781501196423\" target=\"_blank\">The Chef\u2019s Secret<\/a>, came out this year, quotes eleven <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/why-we-hunger-for-novels-about-food\/\">authors on including food in their writing.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Writing, in a way, is an extension of my cooking, and vice versa. Cooking taught me how to create, that I\u00a0<em>needed<\/em>\u00a0to create.\u201d &#8211; Phillip Kazan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Photo by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@jonathan-borba-1491594?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Jonathan Borba\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>from\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/hamburger-and-fries-photo-2983101\/?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Pexels<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhile I was writing\u00a0The Lost Family, I cooked a lot\u2014to meditate on the day\u2019s writing as well as to kitchen-test all the recipes I then featured on the book\u2019s menu. Some of my favorite lines for the book would bubble up that way, as if from a Magic 8-Ball, and one of them was \u2018vegetables &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12131\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Everyone Loves Food<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5,7],"tags":[571,994],"class_list":["post-12131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-authors","category-coffee-tea-drinks","category-fiction","tag-cookies","tag-food"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}