But the memoir is also weirder and wilder than this description implies. The fairy-tale forest evokes a little girl’s interpretation of the world, a garbled dreamscape of prohibitions and pleasures.
“I discourage the use of morality-based labels, because they tend to become a person's identity, like it or not, even subconsciously, like ‘I'm eating clean’ or ‘I'm not eating clean ...
If you happen to be with someone who is ruthlessly disrespectful to the service staff, chances are that’s something you didn’t already know about this person ... go out to eat with them ...