Eat Food.: How Cooking Can Change Your Life: Video Featuring Michael Pollan

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Posted by Elena_Valeriote at 7:49 PM

Elena_Valeriote: People seem to like to tell me I can't make a career out of the things I love. They ask how I think I'm going to find a professional position writing and reading and traveling and eating. They tell me to be more sensible. I consider myself very sensible. I follow the things that make me happy. I am a writer and an epicure. I know that my wanderlust will lead me across the globe many times but I will often return to California, to Los Angeles where I live now and to the Napa Valley/Bay Area where I spent my adolsence. Travel is essential to writers. It is also essential to curious, passionate eaters. A fine meal is a sort of gustatory poetry - one can communicate anything in a dish, despite all language barriers. But I love words as much as I love food, so I gave the Italian and French languages a try and I've found I like the taste of rolling Rs and soft Ls. With culinary and literary greats before me, like MFK Fisher and Julia Child, I may not know how I'm going to do it, but I know it can be done - I'm going to write and read and travel and eat and have a grand time.

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