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" Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second. "
Retro
Christmas
Help
" Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background. In that way, we see the growing up of the American food scene: that it's okay to be a regular person and be really into food. "
Growing Up
See
People
" Food is a lens for culture. "
Food
Culture
Lens
" For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader. "
Through
Sense
Me
" Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity. "
Identity
City
Business
" I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut. "
Taste
Grandmother
Connecticut
" I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am. "
Poetry
Myself
I Am
" I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo. "
World
Doing
Talk
" If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife. "
End Of The World
World
Me
" I love trying new restaurants. "
I Love
Restaurants
Trying
" I'm a total foodie. "
Total
" I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences or even just that they prioritize food - that's where we get this idea of being a foodie. "
Country
Think
People
" I was terrified of taking the G.R.E. "
Taking
Terrified
" I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions. "
Will
Long
Eat
" Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage. "
Funny
Skilled
Men
" Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age. "
City
Rest
Like
" Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen. "
Book
City
Hard
" Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator. "
City
Good
Los Angeles
" My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump. "
Desire
Relationship
Jump
" The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon. "
Always
Curious
Most
" There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness. "
Shape
Write
About
" Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal. "
Ultimately
Niche
Personal
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