Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course; but out of more than that, too. Half earth's gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become.

Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989) - ISBN: 9781429931380