Your interest in food is true. Your interest in getting the recipe from a friend who cooked you an incredible meal is true. But your interest in separating eggs, stirring continuously, sifting or spooning or levelling flour—in short, your interest in baking—is a lie, although your interest in baked goods remains very much true. To be perfectly honest, your interest in food, now that your mother-in-law has given you a five-hundred-page book on the history of saffron, has become a lie.journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter