Being offended is, in itself, an unpleasant sensation, just like pain in your mouth is an unpleasant sensation, but if you have the right amount with the right amount of food, it actually makes the food taste good. So if you have just the right combination, people will laugh despite feeling like it's wrong.

I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.

My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.

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