Sunday Letter: On fall food escapism

Food is a way to escape, but it's also a powerful way to reflect on loss.

Hello, friends. I hope you had a good week. Yesterday my family and I spent an afternoon at Fork & Plow, a small family farm in Aguanga, California, about 100 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, which specializes in lavender and organically grown vegetables.

The farmers, Buck and Belinda Watkins, planted 3,000 sunflowers at the beginning of the gro…