When I Was A Child, Our Whole

I Can Teach A Chimp How To Make Linguini And Clams. I Can't Teach A Chimp To Dream About It And Think About How Great It Is.

You Sit Down At Katz's And You Eat The Big Bowl Of Pickles And You're Eating The Pastrami Sandwich, And Halfway Through You Say To Yourself, I Should Really Wrap This Up And Save It For Tomorrow. But The Sandwich Is Calling You: Remember The Taste You Just Had. So Fatty. It's What You Want. It's What You Are! I've Never Gotten Home From Katz's With A Doggie Bag In My Hand. A Pastrami Sandwich At Katz's Is What's Bad And Good About Food. It's The Sacred And The Profane.

When I Was In College, I Used To Write Little Ditties And Short Stories And Poetry For My Friends. Writing A Book Is Another Thing. It Is So Much Different From My Traditional Day Of Dirty Fingernails And Greasy Hair And Hot Pans.

We Need To Figure Out A 'harvest System' To Collect The Produce That Stores Don't Put Out For Customers To Buy Because It's Not Perfect Looking. Frankly, The Stuff Left To Rot In The Storeroom Is More Beautiful To Me Than The Perfect Carrot. I'm A Gnarly Carrot Kind Of Guy.

Any Simple But Delicious Dish That Celebrates The Season And Locality Is What I Want To Be Known For.