Mark Bittman

So our perception of things is very, very... It's fragmented, and it's limited, and it's hard, and change happens over decades and centuries and millennia, and...

It's just hard to see what the big picture is and hard to know what things are going to look like even 10 years from now, let alone 50 or 100.

Because it's frustrating.

But then those big arcs... I mean, if you knew...

Three years ago, what was going to be happening, A, you might have moved out of the country.

B, you could have made a lot of money.

And C, you'd be a genius because no one foresaw all of the changes that have been made in this country just in two years.

A year and a half.

Unless the dominant thing is things moving in the right direction, which could happen even in my lifetime, it could still happen.

So I do have hope of that.

I look forward to it also, trying to finish.

Yeah.

I mean, I think I could have a draft by the end of the month.

You want to say month, but you're stopping.

End of June, I think I can have a solid draft by the end of June.

No, I want to be finished with it by fall.

I think it's in really good shape right now.

I've been working on it for years.

But it's at a finishing point now.

You'll like that bread.