Food
Quotes - The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human
race than the discovery of a star
“If
you're afraid of butter, use cream.”
―
Julia Child
“I
don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when
it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it
carries a certain taste of memory.”
―
Mitch Albom
“Vegetarians,
and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of
everything good and decent in the human spirit.”
―
Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“We
eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for
something to grow and then we eat it.”
―
Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
“Alcohol
makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what
the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or
writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament—the transmutation of
water into wine during the wedding at Cana—is a tribute to the persistence of
Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at
Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platonic symposium: questions are
asked (especially of the young) while wine is circulated. No better form of
sodality has ever been devised: at Oxford one was positively expected to take
wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. It's not a coincidence that
Omar Khayyam, rebuking and ridiculing the stone-faced Iranian mullahs of his
time, pointed to the value of the grape as a mockery of their joyless and
sterile regime. Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens
made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes
for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and
bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm
the human.”
―
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
“All
sorrows are less with bread. ”
―
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“Tofu
tacos are not Mexican. I think putting tofu on anything and calling it Mexican
is an insult to my people.”
―
Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction
“I
do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who
have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other
animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that
they have to in order to stay alive. The bigger the job, the greater the challenge,
the more wonderful they think it is. It would be good to give up that way of
thinking and live an easy, comfortable life with plenty of free time. I think
that the way animals live in the tropics, stepping outside in the morning and
evening to see if there is something to eat, and taking a long nap in the
afternoon, must be a wonderful life. For human beings, a life of such
simplicity would be possible if one worked to produce directly his daily
necessities. In such a life, work is not work as people generally think of it,
but simply doing what needs to be done.”
―
Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
“How
can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?”
―
Julia Child
“The
single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the
planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and
people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try,
find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. ”
―
Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“Have
you tried the cinnamon things?" Poppet asks. "They're rather new.
What are they called, Widge?"
"Fantastically
delicious cinnamon things?”
―
Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
“I
like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work.
Let
God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.”
―
Robert Farrar Capon
“I
have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted
most
of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.”
―
Nora Ephron
“The
thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.”
―
George Bernard Shaw
“The
discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the
discovery of a star.”
―
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on
Transcendental Gastronomy
