Simple is not a shortcut. It is not even cheating. It is learning to appreciate the essential. Understanding the essence. Simple can be complex. Simple can layered. But most of all simple food is soul food, warming the palate and the heart. It is food that we remember when we close our eyes. Food we remember on a hot sunny day at a bus stop when you’ve been waiting thirty minutes and it hasn’t arrived and you are on your way to lunch.
You remember it because it can be so powerfully singular yet so sensually nourishing.