Bread and Wine — Shauna Niequist Highlights
This was a book that brought me back from my reading slump of years. Here are some insights that stuck with me. My love for reading and cooking is merged in this masterpiece by Shauna. The way she intertwines stories from personal experience, recipes, memories from meals, and memoirs really poses a beautiful read!
Especially for those of us who make our livings largely in front of computer screens, there’s something extraordinary about getting up from the keyboard and using our hands for something besides typing — for chopping and dicing and coaxing scents and flavors from the raw materials in front of us. There’s something entirely satisfying in a modern, increasingly virtual world about something so elemental — heat, knife, sizzle.
The table is the life raft, the center point, the home base of who we are together.
Why couldn’t I be one of those people who forgets to eat? Or who can’t eat a bite when she’s stressed or sad? When I’m stressed or sad, I eat like a truffle pig, hoping…
