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Nigel Slater on Toast
“It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you….Once the warm, salty butter has hit your tongue, you are smitten. Putty in their hands.” — Nigel Slater, toast: the story of a boy’s hunger
Various food Quotes
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ~Voltaire Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. ~Jim Davis There is a lot more juice in grapefruit than meets the eye. ~Author Unknown
Paul Bertolli on Ripeness
“Ripeness embodies all something has ever been, and the most it ever will be. Yet in its brief and glowing completeness, the moment of ripeness seems timeless. No wonder harvest is an ecstatic season tinged with melancholy. ” — Paul Bertolli, from Cooking by Hand
Paul Bertolli on the challenge of cooking
“The task of keeping food vibrant and interesting, particularly food that belongs to a long tradition, is the challenge of any cook, professional or amateur. For those who have a repertoire of their own, the repetitive aspect of cooking and the demands of our relentless need to eat can easily turn cooking into a dull [...]
Linda Carucci on Basil Pesto
“To help preserve the bright green in the fresh basil, chill the olive oil before adding it to the food processor. (The cold oil mitigates some of the heat from the processor.) Some cooks add a crushed vitamin C tablet or a little ascorbic acid to preserve the color. Others pour a thin layer of [...]
Oliver Wendell Holmes-Life and Letters-1867
“Don’t talk to me about taverns! There is just one genuine, clean, decent, palatable thing occasionally to be had in them – namely a boiled egg.”
Michael Pollan on Eating Food
“Eat food. Though in our current state of confusion, this is much easier said than done. So try this: Don’t eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. …There are a great many foodlike items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn’t recognize as food (Go-Gurt? Breakfast-cereal bars? Nondairy creamer?); stay away from these.” — [...]
Dorothy Allison
“Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food — not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother’s [...]
Michelle Bernstein on the creation of Chocolate-Painted Fois Gras
Michelle Bernstein on the creation of Chocolate-Painted Fois Gras “I didn’t have a very firm grip on the terrine mold, so instead of lifting it, I only succeeded in pulling it off the shelf. It eluded my slippery fingers and tumbled down past my widening eyes, right into the bowl of chocolate sauce, where it [...]
Japanese Food Quote
“It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days’ voyage across the Pacific.” John Fox, Jr. Introduction to The Bluegrass Cook Book (1904) by Minnie C. Fox
