Sourdough: A Novel

The internet: always proving that you’re not quite as special as you suspected.

—Charlotte Clingstone presented a kind of ideal. She was bohemian but accomplished. Worldly but rooted.

Here’s a thing I believe about people my age: we are the children of Hogwarts, and more than anything, we just want to be sorted.

human-scale

I have come to believe that food is history of the deepest kind. Everything we eat tells a tale of ingenuity and creation, domination and injustice—and does so more vividly than any other artifact, any other medium.