W is for wanton … and the great difference between the way a man eats and has his lady love eat.

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M is for monastic … and for what happens when men become monks—at table, I hasten to add!

S is for sad … and for the mysterious appetite that often surges in us when our hearts seem breaking and our lives too bleakly empty.

P is for peas … naturally! … and for a few reasons why the best peas I ever ate in my life were, in truth, the best peas I ever ate in my life.

K is for kosher … and for a few reasons why the dietary laws have been called “one of the best economic regimes ever made public.”

I is for innocence … and its strangely rewarding chaos, gastronomically.

C is for cautious … the kind of dinner at which there is an undercurrent of earnest timidity.

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