Preface

The photographs and recipes for this book were created before the COVID-19 crisis hit, and before the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor sparked a momentous, nationwide reckoning with race. As I flip through its pages now, I can’t imagine what our lives will look like in the next few years. Not only does travel feel like a distant memory, but our society, including restaurants and bars themselves, has been completely devastated by the year’s events, and we are grappling with the future of our country.