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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, June 8, 2011

Published by Wednesday, June 8, 2011 Permalink 0

by Jonell Galloway

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.–Wendell Berry (1954-)

Wendell Berry is a Kentucky poet, novelist, essayist, philosopher and farmer. He has always remained close to the land, continuing to farm on his family farm, and this is reflected in much of his work. His most well known book, The Unsettling of America, provides a classic critique of industrial agriculture which is foundational to today’s agrarianism and a precursor of the Slow Food movement and the current food revolution taking place in the U.S.


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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, June 7, 2011

Published by Tuesday, June 7, 2011 Permalink 0

by Jonell Galloway

One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener’s own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.—Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry was born in Kentucky in 1934. He has always promoted a responsible kind of agriculture that is integrated into one’s everyday life. Because he promoted this vision of food and agriculture long before the Slow Food movement started, he is viewed by Slow Food as having laid the foundation for the American Slow Food movement and the move toward a more sustainable and ethical agriculture.

You can view his books and biography on the official Wendell Berry site.

Click here to listen to the 2-part series “Building a Slow Food Nation,” including an interview with Wendell Berry.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, May 31, 2011

Published by Tuesday, May 31, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

Cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage with a college education.–Mark Twain

Mark Twain was an American author and humorist most noted for his two novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). He published more than 30 books during his career.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, May 25, 2011

Published by Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

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, Simon de Swaan, The Rambling Epicure. Editor, Jonell Galloway.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, May 13, 2011

Published by Friday, May 13, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

…To bring a home-grown apple or a palm full of raspberries in from the garden is a different experience altogether from that of taking them off a supermarket shelf.  And isn’t that what we all want – food that brings us the most possible pleasure and delight?–Nigel Slater, Tender, Volume 2

Nigel Slater is an English cook and food writer.  He is a regular contributor to The Guardian and the author of eleven books about the pleasures of cooking and eating.  He can be seen on the BBC or on his own website.


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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, May 9, 2011

Published by Monday, May 9, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

So many of our happiest childhood memories are connected to food. Picnics by the sea, afternoon tea with Granny, Mammy’s lamb stew, or treacle pudding around the kitchen table. How many times have I heard, “I remember Aunt Margie used to make a wonderful apple pie. I wish I’d asked her for the recipe.” So don’t leave it until it’s too late.–Darina Allen, Forgotten Skills of Cooking

Darina Allen is the owner of Ballymaloe Cookery School in Shanagarry, County Cork, Ireland.  In addition to being a teacher, food writer, newspaper columnist, cookbook author and television presenter she is a leader in Ireland’s Slow Food movement. Allen is a founder of the first Farmers Markets in Ireland, and her school is run on an organic farm.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, May 6, 2011

Published by Friday, May 6, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

The three-Martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?–Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States of America (1913-2006), was then incumbent Presidential candidate running against Jimmy Carter. who condemned the practice of having luxurious mid-day meals that could be written off as tax expenses.

Click here to listen to the 3-martini lunch song.

Simon Says, Simon de Swaan. The Rambling Epicure. Editor, Jonell Galloway.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, May 5, 2011

Published by Thursday, May 5, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

Never hesitate to take the last piece of bread or the last cake; there are probably more.–Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms: Etiquette of the Table (1880)

The entire book is scanned for reading online. Click here to read it.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, May 4, 2011

Published by Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

It isn’t only fictional heroes to whom toast means home and comfort. It is related of the Duke of Wellington – I believe by Lord Ellesmere – that when he landed at Dover in 1814, after six years’ absence from England, the first order he gave at the Ship Inn was for an unlimited supply of buttered toast.–Elizabeth David, English Bread and Yeast Cookery (1977)

Elizabeth David was British food writer and author of eight cookbooks published during her lifetime, and five more published posthumously. She won the prestigious Glenfiddich award for her book English Bread and Yeast Cookery.  In the 1960s she was hailed as the person who transformed the eating habits of middle- class England.

Click here to listen to interview with Jill Norman, her publisher.

Click here to watch a scene from a documentary about her life.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, May 3, 2011

Published by Tuesday, May 3, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

When I’m old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.–Ava Gardner

Hollywood leading actress of from the 1950s through the 1970s. Married three times to actor Mickey Rooney; to jazz musician Artie Shaw; and lastly to singer and actor Frank Sinatra. She was also romantically involved with Howard Hughes and Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín.

At the end of her life she suffered from emphysema brought on by a lifetime of smoking. She died at the age of 67 from pneumonia after having had two strokes which left her bedridden.

Click here to listen to Ava  Gardner in the movie Show Boat singing Can’t Help Lovin´dat Man, which clearly she did.

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