This is from chapter two of Covenant Spring. More to follow, as time and pipes allow. The music is “Flowered Knife Shadows,” by Harold Budd, from his CD Lovely Thunder. Blows me away that more people don’t know who he is. I’m pretty certain the esteemed Mr. Budd is a genius.
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Chris
Anthony Bourdain is a chef. He’s an author and he hosts his own TV show, No Reservations, on the Travel Channel. All of this will come into play six paragraphs from now.
My wife is not a chef. My wife’s a cook. She began making puff pasty when she was in grade school, taught by the women in her family. She spent the next several decades cooking for friends, for the commune, for her first husband, for her two boys, then for me. Cooked practically every day because that’s who she is, and everything she cooks is just nailed to the damn plate.
My wife always dreamed of being a food professional, of one day maybe even opening her own place. We’d been married nine years when she informed me she’d quit her job that morning, called a local caterer before lunch, interviewed that afternoon and would start the next day.