Cooking is full-body immersion: the rich contemplation of the beauty of food; the feel of it in my hands; the sound as it splutters or bubbles in the pan; the smell of it all.
Nigella Lawson, Cook, eat, Repeat
Full-Body Immersion
A Living Pencil
Solid joys, deep sorrows, aggressive hope
A Living Pencil 
This reminds me of a line from Shauna Niequest’s Bread and Wine: “For those of us who make our livings largely in front of computer screens, there´s something extraordinary about getting up from the keyboard and using our hands for something besides typing – for chopping and dicing and coaxing scents and flavors from the raw materials in front of us. There´s something entirely satisfying in a modern, increasingly virtual world about something so elemental – heat, knife, sizzle.”
Oh, I love that!
Please tell what those foods are in the picture… fritters of some kind? They give the impression of yumminess!
It’s crappie (a white fish) fried in coconut oil in a beer batter. My husband and his father went fishing and we served them to Dad when he was over for dinner.
My family used to fish for crappie on certain camping trips. 🙂
Carol, I am delighted that you are back writing here. Thank you!
Jep, you are the encourager of all encouragers! Thank *you*!
If words were able to make me enjoy cooking, yours would be the ones.
So true!