damn good food writing

A.J. Liebling’s 1959 New Yorker essay ‘Just Enough Money’ is food journalism to envy.

“A man who is rich in his adolescence is almost doomed to be a dilettante at the table. This is not because all millionaires are stupid but because they are not impelled to experiment. In learning to eat, as in psychoanalysis, the customer, in order to profit, must be sensible of the cost.”

I mean 🔥