by Simón de Swaan
Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent – all must be tasted.–Chinese proverb
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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 28, 2012
Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 28, 2012
by Simon de Swaan
When I was a little girl, I always wanted to be in the kitchen, because it is warm, and that’s where my mother was. You never lose that feeling.–Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. She starred in the Dolly Parton 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias, Joyful Noise and Straight Talk. She is one of the most successful female country music artists of all time, with an estimated 100 million in album sales. Dolly is also one of the bestselling artists of all time. She is known as “The Queen of Country Music”.
She opened a movies theme park in 1985, and was later inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000.
Watch a video performance of Dolly singing her great hit “Jolene” below.
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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 23, 2011
by Simón de Swaan
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.–Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher — brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin — was a prominent Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th century. An 1875 adultery trial in which he was accused of having an affair with a married woman was one of the most notorious American trials of the 19th century.
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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 22, 2012
by Simón de Swaan
Without my morning coffee I’m just like a dried up piece of roast goat.–Johann Sebastian Bach
here was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity. “He learned to play all of the keyboard instruments of the time and also how to repair and build organs,” says Music at Your House.
Click here to listen to some of his most well-known recordings.
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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 13, 2012
by Simón de Swaan
We never repent of having eaten too little.–Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson — author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, third president of the United States, and founder of the University of Virginia — voiced the aspirations of a new America as no other individual of his era.
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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 10, 2012
by Simón de Swaan
The further I travel in search of the ideal slimming method the more I am convinced that food is one of the oldest and greatest comforters… a secret return to the womb…–Roy Andries de Groot
Baron Roy Andries de Groot was a British-born American culinary writer and wine critic. He was born in London, the son of a Dutch artist and a French noblewoman. During the 1930s, de Groot worked as a news and feature writer, film writer, and director. When World War II broke out, he joined the British Ministry of Information and worked for the BBC, where, during The Blitz of London, he suffered eye injuries that would leave him totally blind within 20 years.
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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 9, 2012
by Simón de Swaan
Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life.–Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973) was an Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival, she is regarded as one of the most prominent figures in fashion between the two World Wars. Starting with knitwear, Schiaparelli’s designs were heavily influenced by Surrealists, such as her collaborators Salvador Dalí and Alberto Giacometti.
Click here to see examples of her designs.
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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 2, 2012
by Simón de Swaan
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.–W. H. Auden
Anglo-American poet Wystan Hugh Auden, who published under the name W. H. Auden, was born in England, and later became an American citizen. He is regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. The central themes of his poetry are love, politics and citizenship, religion and morals, and the relationship between unique human beings and the anonymous, impersonal world of nature.
Click here to read his poems.
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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, December 14, 2011
by Simón de Swaan
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.–Miguel de Cervantes, 1615
Don Quixote was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, here, considered the first modern novel, is a classic of Western literature, and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written.
Click to read more about him.
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