Sweetbitter: A novel
By Bread Alone: A Baker's Reflections on Hunger, Longing, and the Goodness of God
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She broke off a piece from a candy bar and put it in your mouth while you sat in the high chair. As the stearate in the cocoa butter absorbed the heat from your mouth and melted over your tongue, complex alkaloids were released and seeped into your taste buds: twitchy caffeine, giddy phenethylamine, serotonic theobromine.
Ken Liu • The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
