'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.
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The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.
I think I wrote my first piece about food in 1978.
In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.
I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
I have a certain point of view, a certain way to plate food, certain ingredients that I like to use.
I don't think there was ever a dish that changed my life. I certainly remember a constant series of things that I had for the first time and thought, 'Where has this been all my life?' One was brie. I mean, oh my God! One was my first soft-shell crabs.
Writing about food is my default.
I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
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