Quote of the Day: Gabrielle Hamilton on How She Writes About Food

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"I do love food. But food for me in that book is just the setting; it's the background. If I'd been a cop for a living I'd probably have written about guns and, I don't know, handcuffs."

-Prune chef and Blood Bones and Butter author Gabrielle Hamilton on writing vivid food descriptions in a recent interview. [SE]