20210526, #breakfastdiary 100, 13°C/mostly clear
Drizzle olive oil in a pan and briefly blanch the prettiest #goatsbeardgreens in the world. Pair with a boiled egg and dressing, pepper pepper pepper pepper
During the period when Parisians had to part ways with restaurants, they said what they missed wasn't food but “people.” That's because social distancing meant they couldn't go anywhere that let their abundant sociability come alive. (...) Warm restaurant food was once a source of vitality, even something of a miracle of revival. Now, more than anything, it has become an existential marker for the revival of everyday life itself.
(Kim Yong-seok, Restaurant: We Eat Together, Therefore We Exist)
That's what eating together is really about. Maybe that's why, in Korean, “hungry” (baegopeuda) and “I miss you” (bogopeuda) are just one letter apart.