For your friends, for your family, and especially for yourself. It is art you can eat and a way to feel productive while enjoying yourself. Baking is my mortal enemy though, I always mess something up and ruin it.
damn Geoff Dyer can write. the first half is escapist and light and funny and romantic and mean and lean and well paced and plotted but also messy and free. sections unforgettable. the back half is strained and strange but it’s worth re reading the first 120 pages once a year.
