Eating is an intimate act – in fact, eating in a restaurant is just about the most intimate way to pleasure the body that one is socially permitted to perform in public. It’s perverse when you think about it: you take something given to you by a stranger, and put it into your mouth. You trace its textures and flavours with your tongue and swallow, absorbing it into your body and your memory. What you order, how you eat it and what it evokes reveals a little of who you are. A tender artichoke…
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