The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.
As a dramatist, you have 200 choices at every fork in the road. But the audience will reject it if you make the wrong choice, if they feel you are trying to shape the character in a way that suits you. It rings false immediately. People can sense when you're being cynical or schematic.
As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.
Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.
If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.
