A Literary Culinary Journal
Food is our common ground, a universal experience.–James Beard
Dubbed as the father of American gastronomy, James Beard was the author of numerous cookbooks, a teacher and mentor to many professional cooks, as well as an inspiration to many home cooks who learned how to cook and to appreciate the foods that are regionally specific to the United States.
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Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.–Epictetus (55 AD – 135 AD)
Greek Stoic philosopher, Epictetus was born into slavery. He believed that all external events are determined by fate and beyond our control and that we should accept what life brings us calmly.
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One of the delights of life is eating with friends, second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.–Laurie Colwin, Home Cooking
Prolific American food writer who died unexpectedly from a heart attack at age 48.
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The candyman can, The candyman can cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good.–Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley
This song was written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley specifically for the film and does not appear in Roald Dahl’s original book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or the 2005 film adaptation. It was sung by Aubrey Woods, who played Bill the candy store owner in the original film.
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A clever cook, can make….good meat of a whetstone.–Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (1466?-1536)
Frequently referred to as Erasmus, Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus was a Dutch priest and scholar. Using humanist techniques for working on texts, he prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament. He lived through the Reformation period and consistently criticized some contemporary popular Christian beliefs. In relation to clerical abuses in the Church, Erasmus remained committed to reforming the Church from within.
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by Simón de Swaan
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.–Maurice de Vlaminck
Maurice de Vlaminck (4 April 1876 – 11 October 1958) was a French painter who, along with André Derain and Henri Matisse, is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense color.
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by Simón de Swaan
My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.–Pearl Bailey
Born in 1918, Pearl Bailey was a composer, singer, songwriter, a dancer, then a singer in New York in the early 1940s, touring with the Cootie Williams orchestra, and later a featured singer in night clubs, radio and television. Best known for her theatre role in “Hello Dolly” she died in August of 1990.
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No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.–Laurie Colwin
Laurie Colwin (June 14, 1944 – October 24, 1992) was an American novelist and food writer, who died in her sleep at 48. Since her death, her following has continued, and all her books are still in print.
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If you’re happy, you eat. If you’re sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It’s, you know, it’s addiction.–Barbara Cook
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Barbara Cook is a Broadway singer and actress who won a Tony Award for her role in The Music Man in 1957. Today she performs in concert and in cabarets.
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For the first time I know what it is to eat. I have gained four pounds. I get frantically hungry, and the food I eat gives me a lingering pleasure. I never ate before in this deep carnal way… I want to bite into life and to be torn by it.–Anaïs Nin (1903 – 1977)
The daughter of Spanish composer Joaquin Nin, Anaïs Nin is most known for her diaries but she is also the author of numerous novels, poems and erotic short stories which were published after her death. In 1974 she was elected into the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
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Meet Jonell Galloway, a freelance writer and editor specialized in French cuisine. 
