Favorite Lines Friday

Here are a few lines from my first major Distraction of the year: Cooked by Michael Pollan. These are great thoughts on why anyone would ever bother to cook for herself:

To brew beer, to make cheese, to bake a loaf of bread, to braise a pork shoulder, is to be forcibly reminded that all these things are not just products, in fact are not even really “things.” Most of what presents itself to us in the marketplace as a product is in truth a web of relationships, between people, yes, but also between ourselves and all the other species on which we depend.

A Year of Books I've Read Before