“I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is n...” — Crescent Dragonwagon Quote

“I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure, and I always come at it from the pleasure and connection points, and the nourishment follows.”

“First of all, you want to do the soaking with almost all of the larger beans because that will take care of the gas, and second of all... they want to be seasoned and flavored.”

“Cooking and eating are among the most important ways we weave days into lives.”

“Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.”

“I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.”

“It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.”