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Making utensils enables me to dwell in the moment of appetite, where the anticipation of satiation moves the body through the world of food materials.  It is a movement driven by desire and guided by memory, by ancestry, and by our sense of self.  A utensil extends the body and transforms the energy of this movement into purposeful action.  The verbs of the kitchen are not only the processes of food preparation – grind, separate, season, ream, drain – they are also metaphors for our internal processes of combustion and transformation.

Making utensils enables me to dwell in the moment of appetite, where the anticipation of satiation moves the body through the world of food materials.  It is a movement driven by desire and guided by memory, by ancestry, and by our sense of self.  A utensil extends the body and transforms the energy of this movement into purposeful action.  The verbs of the kitchen are not only the processes of food preparation – grind, separate, season, ream, drain – they are also metaphors for our internal processes of combustion and transformation.