Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life. Adam Gopnik civilisecoreeat share on social
You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together. Adam Gopnik coffeeculturedecent Change image and share on social
All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd. Adam Gopnik absurdartificialbite Change image and share on social
Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet. Adam Gopnik acediaadulteryaid share on social
