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The 10 Wisest Lines from Author-Chef Eddie Huang’s Double Cup Love
There are some books you just have to read twice in a row. The first time, you tear through the pages because you’re eager to find out what comes next. You know you’re missing some scenic moments and some nuggets of wisdom, but you’re having too much fun to pause and you just gotta find out what happens. The second time, you take your time with every word and you unpack every paragraph. It’s during that second read, when you already know where the narrative is headed, that you have the luxury to digest all the gems of knowledge you missed the first time.
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Double Cup Love is one of those books. It’s the follow-up to Eddie Huang’s first memoir, Fresh Off the Boat, a bestseller that inspired the ABC sitcom of the same name. While Fresh Off the Boat is about where you’re from and where you get your start, Double Cup Love is about how that informs where you’re going, and how to continually define yourself. It flies by the first time through, an uproariously funny ride that takes you from New York to Orlando to China to Scranton. But there’s a lot of wisdom dropped along the way, shared in Huang’s usual fast-paced witty way, and you won’t want to miss any of it.
From my second read, here are some favorite Eddie Huang-isms on love, food, and self-discovery:
- “The key to being single in New York is recognizing that no one is really inviting you anywhere. No one is that interested in you, they just need a friend right now, and you really shouldn’t catch feelings.”
- “Effortless control is maddeningly attractive.”
- “When it’s done right, cooking is art in the most accessible, immediate, and satisfying way. Anyone can do it, anyone can appreciate it, and it’s extremely democratic.”
- “What does everyone want Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday once they move out of their parents’ home? Mom’s food. That’s what meat and three is: the ten-dollar reenactment of your mother’s table. In this way, cooks are surrogate moms.”
- “When all else fails in romance, do people just give up and marry the manifestation of their favorite restaurant?”
- “For me, cooking has always been about ideas and techniques, not recipes.”
- “No one or no thing can speak for you, you have to speak for yourself.”
- “People talk about escape, but I don’t believe in traveling for the purpose of forgetting. I travel to find myself again.”
- “I don’t believe in country. I don’t believe in race. But I do believe in the power of place.”
- “It isn’t acceptance that extinguishes us, instead, it awakes us. And even if love doesn’t last, acceptance gives us new beginnings.”
And last but not least, an Eddie Huang quote for the worst of situations: “Life is about intentions. I am man; I intend to step on this Cheez-it!”
You’re just going to have to read the book to get that one.
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