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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, May 25, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Permalink 0

The most important point to consider, when making a vegetable salad, is that the ingredients should be of the very finest and freshest you can find. This may be an obvious stipulation, yet it is surprising how often it is not adhered to.–Simon Hopkinson, Week In Week Out

Simon Hopkinson is an English chef and author who started cooking at the age of 16. He is author of Roast Chicken and Other Stories, which in 2005 was voted the “most useful cookbook of all time” by a panel of British food-world peers. Taken from his much-loved columns in The Independent, Week In Week Out brings together 52 stories about ingredients with their associated recipes.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, May 10, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Tuesday, May 10, 2011 Permalink 0

by Sim ón de Swaan

The farmer in me also makes it hard for me to throw things away. Everything on our farm used to used; my mother would always have one eye on the next meal. If you had a chicken, the carcass would be boiled up for soup. When the pig was killed the fat would be rendered down and kept in jars for frying. If something gives you flavour, I find it very wasteful to throw it away.–Richard Corrigan, The Clatter of Forks and Knives

Richard Corrigan is an Irish chef born in Dublin but raised in Ballivor, County Meath. He earned a Michelin star in 1998 and has been awarded many other culinary accolades, including Outstanding London Chef at the London Restaurant Awards. He is the author of two cookbooks.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, April 28, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, April 28, 2011 Permalink 0

by Sim ón de Swaan

Somehow we have fallen for a myth, the notion that food that isn’t fast prepared and fast cooked is inherently more difficult, more time consuming, more of a sweat, almost not worth the effort, or, at least, only worth the effort of the time.–Tamasin Day-Lewis, Good Tempered Food

Tamasin Day-Lewis is an English television chef, daughter of the poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis and actress Jill Balcon, and sister of the actor Daniel Day-Lewis. For those who live in the UK , her cooking show can be watched on TV.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, April 13, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, April 13, 2011 Permalink 0

by Sim ón de Swaan

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.–Alice May Brock

Alice May Brock was the inspiration for Arlo Gutherie’s album Alice’s Restaurant. She was a painter, designer and owner of Alice’s Restaurant, formerly known as the Back Room Restaurant in Stockbridge, Massachusetts in the U.S.