A good loin of pork or brisket of beef, dry rubbed with salt and some spices, then cooked long and slow over a bed of coals afore you slather on a compounded ferment of vinegar and tomato sauce—that’s a ticket to heaven through the gates of the mouth. Food as righteous as any toe-curling sin.
— “The Temptation of Eustace Prudence McAllen” by Jay Lake