A peppery encounter

Try perfectlycharred Pimientos de Padrón says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

AFTER A LIFETIME of gazing into a woman’s eyes, a man ought to be able to read her mind. Though my gaze has been intense, if intermittent, for over 45 years, I still can’t divine my wife’s intentions. I ought to have spotted some malign gleam or secret strategy when she approached me recently with a culinary question. She asks me about food from time to time — sometimes to flatter my vanity, sometimes to expose my ignorance, sometimes to vaunt superior recipes of her own or of some grand chef, but rarely to seek information. “I have small green and red peppers,” she said, credibly. “I thought of stuffing them with rice. What do you think?” AS IT HAPPENED, I was thinking about textual problems in the work of…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2022

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