Food Is Love

"In the old days, people believed that if you knew the right words, you could turn base metal into gold, but in that kitchen, I learned the deeper truth, the even older magic: That with time and intention, you could turn flour into food, scraps into sufficiency, and ingredients into love."

So says the first essay of Food Is Love, a vulnerable collection of essays by sixth-generation Mississippian Hugh Hollowell. If you were to make a list of the things he knows for sure, that food is love wo...