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A review by bookslovejenna
Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community, and the Meaning of Generosity by Priya Basil
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Five things about Be My Guest by Priya Basil ππππ
1. A dense, rich collection of thoughts about hospitality as we live it at the table, in our homes, in our families, in our communities, in our countries, our continents, our world.
2. βWithout a guest, there is no host. Without the host, no guest. Only strangers.β (p. 128)
3. βPower often asserts itself through excesses of both hostility and hospitality.β (p. 12).
4. βTo consort with strangers is to accept uneasy intimacies.β (p. 64).
5. βIf hospitality is a set of concentric circles, then each circumference is a set of conditions. Life is conditional. Meanwhile, its compass spins, the needle spiraling in every direction, but pointing, always, towards unconditional. There. There. There β almost graspable always beyond reach β the radical appeal to live, as though every single life matters equally. Impossible. Possible.β (p.88).
1. A dense, rich collection of thoughts about hospitality as we live it at the table, in our homes, in our families, in our communities, in our countries, our continents, our world.
2. βWithout a guest, there is no host. Without the host, no guest. Only strangers.β (p. 128)
3. βPower often asserts itself through excesses of both hostility and hospitality.β (p. 12).
4. βTo consort with strangers is to accept uneasy intimacies.β (p. 64).
5. βIf hospitality is a set of concentric circles, then each circumference is a set of conditions. Life is conditional. Meanwhile, its compass spins, the needle spiraling in every direction, but pointing, always, towards unconditional. There. There. There β almost graspable always beyond reach β the radical appeal to live, as though every single life matters equally. Impossible. Possible.β (p.88).