Small Inconveniences

by Elise M Powers

Anthony Bourdain once said if you’re too lazy to peel garlic, you don’t deserve to eat it, which I take to mean: In a pre-minced world, where everyone searches for meaning in mediocrity, where we’re too quick to dismiss the quiet scrape of a knife, the hiss of cloves in hot butter, a sliver of time golden at the edges, please bother with an existence that is slow-simmered, sticky-fingered, full of the big flavors and small inconveniences that make up a life.

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