distilled

Early Sunday morning, Eric Mitchell, the president of the Alliance to End Hunger, distilled the implications in a single line: “Hunger will not disappear simply because it is no longer tracked.”

Four letters distilled a practice that could take decades to internalize, making it repeatable even in the chaos of a busy kitchen.

The resulting image, published in Interiors magazine, distilled a seismic moment in L.A.’s creative history.

That dynamic is hilariously distilled in the episode “Mac & Dennis Move to the Suburbs.”

Instead, it was pure umami: tomato distilled to its essence, clean and resonant and utterly structural.