I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.

The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.