I am a prolific consumer of leftover food. Leftovers or not, every other day or so my dinners usually consist of many small servings of very different things.

Take tonight’s meal: roast pork loin and fried rice, which the family—except myself; I was preoccupied—had for lunch; shrimp wonton soup, freshly nuked from the freezer; and sushi I picked up from Safeway. I put away the pork loin quite quickly; but as the morsels dwindle in number the conflict I am faced with is simply, with which dish would I grace my palate for the last bite?

Tonight I picked the sushi. Is there anyone out there who even has meals with this kind of lucidity?