"Jazz is a music of live embodiment. Part of its power has always been to change the way that we assemble... and performers have always responded to the environment where they’re being heard."

"Writing about food brings the challenge of conveying the irreducibly complex sensations of the body into the medium of language. The body, like food, is site-specific; it is anchored to place and time and cannot be in two locations at once. Language is unattached, and disembodied: floats away from us."