Secret eating
Plus a cool and impressive trick for cooking, and a recipe for the Best Dessert™
"Almost everyone has something secret he likes to eat," begins the essay called "Borderland" by M.F.K. Fisher.1 "He is downright furtive about it usually, or mentions it only in a kind of conscious self-amusement, as one who admits too quickly, "It is rather strange, yes—and I'll laugh with you."
A contemporary reader might as…