Sunday Sentence

In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
Could it truly be a sin, such a crust?
Source: Andrew Furman, Goldens Are Here: A Novel
This is something I’ve never understood. How can cooking well be a sin?
Unless something like gold dust is added to the ordinary ingredients.
Well, I don’t want to give anything away!