Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled.
When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.
Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.
Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.
As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.
I believe in red meat. I often said: red meat and gin.
I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.
A different vision of ethics is that of a collection of resources people can use to act better. The resources might be firm rules that could always be relied on. Or they might be ideals that could often be followed without thinking but that sometimes conflicted with one another.
Keep your goals in front of you, and your fears behind you.
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