What do love and chicken have to do with one another? You might not think a lot, but as Mark Spence illustrates, what we love most about food—making new things, tweaking a recipe, making a small change and seeing new results—doesn’t always apply to the way we interact with others. The analogies and ties we find to our personal lives and the world around us are especially prescient in this piece, and in the end, you’ll probably be asking the same question Mark poses: “Jesus man, who hurt you?”