Hollandaise sauce is one of the many reminders of why we owe French culture a debt of gratitude. It is one of the best substances in the known universe. The French have invented many such substances. This is just one of them.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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