Ornament
I recall my mother remarking how she learnt that some people would put take-out food out of its container onto plates at home before eating. It was as if she had saw something extraordinary. After all, it is indeed quite a herculean effort to pour the food out, as well as washing those dreadful extra dishes afterward. Would it be outrageous for the same people to suggest that the same food taste better on the plate than on a take-out box? The food certainly does not undergo any substantial change from such transfer. Yet so small a gesture, is a gesture of nobility and dignity of a modern man. It is fair to say that this is a proper reverence for a dinner on a weekday. It is also fitting that we carefully pour out pints for our friends, or pull out the elegant bottle and glass we share with the one we love. We would not then, hesitate to employ the most extravagant chalice for the one we love entirely. Indeed, then the food does taste better not in its change in its saltiness, but i...