Gabriel, you learned a lot on the trip and encountered some of the best food of your life in very unexpected places. And you also learned what it really meant to be hungry, and realized that to be fed in that state, often by strangers, when in that state of fear and hunger, became the single most important and convincing food experience you ever had. Gabriel, speaking of of moving to europe, i did pick a quote out that i'd love you to share from your book about how that trip came to be. If you can read that please. Those gloomy thoughts at dusk with the cigarettes turned from thoughts of my own death, which i an otherwise healthy and robust and well