![]() ![]() ![]() His love of food was part of what eventually led him to farming. ![]() Eventually he ditched cookbooks and went freelance, adhering to a few simple principles: keep your knives sharp, taste everything, and don’t be stingy with the salt. He became obsessed with rolling fresh sushi, and when he had a crush on a girl in middle school he cooked her a seven-course dinner. It’s personal, it’s satisfying, and everyone feels good about it. There is simply a flow of things from the place of excess to the place of need. And then you give them something else, and they give you something else, and pretty soon nobody is keeping score. They try to make it up to you, by giving you something big in return. At first, he said, people are discomfited by such a big gift. He had a theory that you had to start out by giving stuff away–preferably big stuff, worth, he figured, about a thousand dollars. He’d like to imagine a farm where no money traded hands, only goodwill and favors. He found the market economy and its anonymous exchange boring. He had recently turned against the word should, and doing so had made him a happier person. The Dirty Life, by Kristin Kimball Vishal Katariya Kat's Kable Blog Links Excerpts Similes The Dirty Life, by Kristin KimballĮxcerpts of choice from The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball. ![]()
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