Be careful what you get good at doin' 'cause you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life. -Jo Carson

Gabrielle Hamilton

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This is the crepe.
This is the cider.
This is how we live and eat.

Gabrielle Hamilton

Mots clés food

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Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life.

Gabrielle Hamilton

Mots clés talent career

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...as soon as I saw the three-bin stainless steel pot sink, exactly like ours, I felt instantly at home and fell into peeling potatoes and scraping plates for the dishwasher like it was my own skin. And that, just like that, is how a whole life can start.

Gabrielle Hamilton

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It's hard to cook for kids, and when something doesn't appeal to them, instead of saying a polite no thank you, they instead break into a giant yuk face and shriek "eewww" right in front of you, as if you had no feelings at all.

Gabrielle Hamilton

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I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.

Gabrielle Hamilton

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I had always wanted to contribute in some way. Leave a little more than I took.

Gabrielle Hamilton

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People who know me well understand fully what I am saying when I suggest that I am working an appetite and that we'd best be making our move. This means it is time to hit the road before my blood sugar-what's left of it-crashes to that point where I'm going to ruin your fucking day.

Gabrielle Hamilton

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How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

Gabrielle Hamilton

Mots clés humor growing-up family parents adulthood parents-and-children becoming-your-parents

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But it was from him - with his cool, long sideburns and aviator sunglasses, and box of watercolor paints (and artist's paycheck) - from him we learned how to create beauty where none exists, how to be generous beyond our means, how to change a small corner of the world just by making a little dinner for a few friends.

Gabrielle Hamilton

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