Eating Breakfast Every Day Boosts Energy
by Pat Melgares
Health studies continue to reinforce the importance of eating breakfast every... Read more »
Andre Simon on Cookery
“Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as ‘art for art’s sake’ it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the least encouragement, but no cook can cook just for his or her own sake in a like manner. All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth [...]
Marion Cunningham on Home Cooking
Marion Cunningham on Home Cooking “Home cooking is a catalyst that brings people together. We are losing the daily ritual of sitting down around the table (without the intrusion of television), of having the opportunity to interact, to share our experiences and concerns, to listen to others. Home kitchens, despite the increase in designer appliances [...]
Jamie Oliver on Kitchens that Work
Jamie Oliver on Kitchens that Work “If you can, it’s always nice to have your sink near or in front of a window for good light and a bit of a view whilst doing the washing-up.” — Jamie Oliver, Jamie’s Dinners: The Essential Family Cookbook
Thomas Schnetz & Dona Savitsky (Dona Tomas) on Toasting Fresh Chiles
“The ideal way to toast fresh chiles to get the best flavor and the most even blistering would be over a wood fire, but this isn’t always practical for home cooks. Toasting fresh chiles over a gas burner can impart the flavor of the heat source, which isn’t exactly desirable, and deep-frying can infuse the [...]
Reyniere on the kitchen
“The kitchen is a country in which there are always new discoveries to be made.” — Grimod de la Reyniere, Almanach des Gourmands
Jennifer Steinhauer on Birthday Cakes
“While there is an argument to be made for the aesthetic pleasures of a bakery cake — all those gorgeous piped roses and fondant images of Hello Kitty so perfect that they are probably copyright infringement — there is really nothing better than a homemade cake. Even if the layers are lopsided, the frosting a [...]
Lewis Carroll on Soup
“Beautiful soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen! Who for such dainties would not stoop? Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful soup!” — Lewis Carroll
Edward Espe Brown on Zen Cooking
Zen cooking means: cooking as a personal spiritual act personally selecting foods recycling leftovers and waste respect for and hospitality toward guests an absolutely clean kitchen use of the freshest seasonal ingredients the ability to cook anywhere in the world with whatever is on hand being equally capable of cooking frugally and extravagantly using food [...]
Marion Nestle on The Great Irony of Modern Nutrition
“Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese. ” — Marion Nestle, from the foreword to Hungry Planet :What The World Eats by Peter Menzel and [...]
Marilyn Monroe on Matzo
“Isn’t there any other part of the matzo you can eat?” — Marilyn Monroe, on being served matzo-ball soup three days in a row.
