Cookery vs life: the comparison here is not accidental, but inevitable! Both fields have this aphorism valid: we eat to live, but we do not live for eating. What we live for, is -- to eat deliciously!
I was able to fit my text to 200 characters.
Posted in response to @felt.buzz's Zapfic contest
The prompt was: Food.
Probably its my 1st attempt to enter any 'writing' contest... well, maybe second, counting the 'Every image has its haiku' wonderful contest.
The 'Food' theme nicely coincided with the book I am reading this week: 'Russian Cuisine in Exile' by Pyotr Vail and Al.Genis. (God knows I love such coincidences!!). Reading this essay, I am highly fuelled and over-filled with cuisine thoughts, so the main idea naturally matured into this short text. The book is great, it is Not a mix of receipts... it is an essay on the culture, infected driven with a deadly solid doze of humour. Highly recommended!
(collage created by me; designs (c) by their copyright holders)
Here are the book sleeves as a bonus (various Russian editions + an English one).