Mark Bittman

It's obvious to everyone somehow except for us.

Well, hopefully this November we'll

take us somewhere.

I'll tell you that I assume you can edit out anything you want to.

So I have this cartoon sitting on my desk where this fortune teller is sitting with Donald Trump and she goes, the day you die will be a national holiday.

And he goes, well, that's really cool.

What national holiday?

And she says, any day you die will be a national

I wanted to write.

I was doing community organizing when I was in my 20s, and someone said, do you want to work on our newspaper?

We had a little organization in Boston doing community organizing, and someone said, do you want to work on the newspaper?

And I said, yeah.

And she basically said, okay, because I'm quitting, and then I was running this little newspaper.

And so I...

got to write.

I also learned how to edit and type and do photos and all of that.

And then when it became time to try to, quote unquote, become a writer, I didn't really have a topic, but I was cooking a lot and I tried writing about food and it worked.

But it certainly was not a plan.

And there was no plan.

Well, I guess I have to preface this by saying modesty aside, but I'll try to retain a little modesty.