Chinese food usually includes sweet and sour chicken and General Tso's chicken. And while these dishes are similar, there are some differences worth noting.
Jamie Harrison on the Relationship Between Eating, Love, and Memory
January 14, 2021
When I finished my new novel this past endless winter and cleaned my desk, I found this note:
When you eat well, you’re eating memory Barry Hannah.
I probably put too much food in my novels, but food is what people do, at least my people. They think about it, and they talk while they’re eating it; it’s in their errands and the shape of a life’s story. Writing about it can be a dodge on a hard day; for a previous novel, set in 1905, I felt I had to spend days on the New York Public Library’s website staring at the Buttolph menu collection. Parts of a new novel,