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If salami is the blog of cured meats, then prosciutto is the great novel.
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With Salt and Patience, an Iowa Couple Makes World-Class Prosciutto - NYTimes.com
Huh. Not sure what I think of that line, either as an analogy or prose. It’s striking, no doubt, but maybe I’m just not there yet thinking you can just go around using the word “blog” like that. Like, sure maybe, but it’s almost too intentional. Like, you just KNOW the writer has been thinking of “If ___ is the blog of ____ then ___ is the novel” for a long time, and has been just waiting and dying to use it. And then an article about prosciutto comes along and aha (!) finally a chance to use that.
It’s not that it doesn’t work. It does. Fine. But…
