The Everlasting Wonder of the Lost (Kitchen) Causes

There are books that changed my life forever in a matter of pages, like Richard Holmes’s The Age of Wonder.¹ The history of a time when astronomers and musicians, aeronauts and artists, all were caught up in a frenzy of possibility.

Then there are titles I re-read every few years for the pleasure of the return. (I see you, Lord of the Rings).

The same goe…