garlic is to cooking as vanilla extract is to baking in that the amount i add to my food is guided by reckless extravagance and utter disregard, verging on mild contempt, for the recipe as written
when charlotte brontë wrote “life wears away—i shall soon be 30—and i have done nothing yet—sometimes i get melancholy—at the prospect before and behind me—yet it is wrong and foolish to repine—”