Dec 26, 2000
On the third hour of dish washing when it appears that the goose fat has permeated every pore, every plate and every surface of oneself, the kitchen and its environs, it occurs to you that it might not be worth it. The big dinner with the big beast and the big friends. But in spite of the labor, the expense, the wrestling with unwieldy beasts in small spaces, the dull ache the following day in the upper right quadrant of the thorax and abdomen (what the French casually and frequently refer to as a "crise de foie"), it always is. I have no truck with the Christmas curmudgeon. I don't care what the excuse, there are too few of them as it is, excuses to sit down, stop working and break bread and wind with one's loved ones.
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On the third hour of dish washing when it appears that the goose fat has permeated every pore, every plate and every surface of oneself, the kitchen and its environs, it occurs to you that it might not be worth it. The big dinner with the big beast and the big friends. But in spite of the labor, the expense, the wrestling with unwieldy beasts in small spaces, the dull ache the following day in the upper right quadrant of the thorax and abdomen (what the French casually and frequently refer to as a "crise de foie"), it always is. I have no truck with the Christmas curmudgeon. I don't care what the excuse, there are too few of them as it is, excuses to sit down, stop working and break bread and wind with one's loved ones.
- rachael 12-26-2000 8:40 pm