by Simón de Swaan
Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one.–Chinese proverb
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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, March 6, 2012
by Simón de Swaan
One symptom of the decline of culture in Britain is indifference to the art of preparing food.–T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns “T. S.” Eliot was a playwright, literary critic, and an important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalized as a British subject in 1927 at age 39. He started the poem that made his name, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, in 1910, and published it in Chicago in 1915. It is regarded as a masterpiece of the modernist movement. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
Click here to read a brief biography of him, along with his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, March 5, 2012
by Simón de Swaan
Food, like a loving touch or a glimpse of divine power, has the ability to comfort.–Norman Kolpas
Norman Kolpas has been a major player in lifestyle-related media for 25+ years, working with such prestigious publications as Time Life Books’ 14 series publication The Good Cook, Bon Appetit, and Food Network TV. He has published more than 40 cookbooks. He was an honors graduate of Yale University.
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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, March 2, 2012
by Simón de Swaan
Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.—Paul Bocuse
Paul Bocuse is a French chef based in Lyon, renowned for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine. He is one of the most prominent chefs associated with the Nouvelle Cuisine, which is less opulent and calorific than the traditional cuisine classique associated with the Escoffier school of cooking, and stresses the importance of fresh ingredients of the highest quality. Paul Bocuse claims that Henri Gault first used the term Nouvelle Cuisine to describe food prepared by Bocuse and other top chefs for the maiden flight of the Concorde airliner in 1969.
Click here to see Bocuse’s restaurant website.
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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, March 1, 2012
by Simón de Swaan
… there is nothing more delicious than an orange. The very sound of the word, the dazzling exotic color that shimmers inside the word, is a poem of surpassing beauty, complete in this line:
Orange
–Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novel Them (1969) won the National Book Award, and her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000) were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 29, 2012
by Simón de Swaan
The art of using up leftovers is not to be considered as the summit of culinary achievement.–Larousse Gastronomique
The Larousse Gastronomique is an encyclopedia of gastronomy. The majority of the book is devoted to French cuisine, and contains recipes for French dishes as well as detailed, illustrated explanations of cooking techniques.
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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 27, 2012
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
Pearl Mae Bailey (1918-1990) was an American actress and singer. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway début in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. In 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special, Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale.
You can see her perform in the video at the bottom of the page.
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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 24, 2012
by Simón de Swaan
I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.–Burt Lancaster
Burton Stephen “Burt” Lancaster was an American film actor noted for his athletic physique and distinctive smile. After initially building his career on “tough guy” roles, Lancaster abandoned his “all-American” image in the late 1950s in favor of more complex and challenging roles, and came to be regarded as one of the best actors of his generation as a result. Lancaster was nominated four times for Academy Awards and won once — for his work in Elmer Gantry in 1960. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Lancaster 19th among the greatest male stars of all time.
Click here to watch him here in his Academy Award-winning role in Elmer Gantry.
Burt Lancaster (Image via RottenTomatoes.com)
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