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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 23, 2011

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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.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 22, 2012

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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.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 21, 2012

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by Simón de Swaan

The golden rule when reading the menu is, if you cannot pronounce it, you cannot afford it.–Frank Muir

here was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur.

Click to see him in a TV commercial for milk.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 20, 2012

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by Simón de Swaan

One can say everything best over a meal.–George Eliot

Mary Anne Evans, better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She was the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 13, 2012

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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.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 10, 2012

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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.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 9, 2012

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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.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 8, 2012

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by Simón de Swaan

Food Haiku

A man that eats
his meals amidst morning glories—
that’s what I am!

–Matsuo Bashō

Matsuo Bashō was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Bashō was recognized for his works in the collaborative haikai no renga form; today, after centuries of commentary, he is recognized as a master of brief, clear haiku.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 7, 2012

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by Simón de Swaan

XIII: It is heresy to insist that we must not mix wines: a man’s palate can grow numb and react dully to even the best bottle after the third glass from it.–Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, from The Physiology of Taste

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin was a French lawyer and politician who gained fame as an epicure and gastronome. Many consider him the best food critic ever. His 8-volume, famous work, Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of Taste), was published in December 1825, two months before his death.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 6, 2012

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by Simón de Swaan

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.–St. Jerome, c. 395

St. Jerome (formerly Saint Hierom) was a Roman Catholic priest, confessor, theologian and historian, who also became a Doctor of the Church. He is best known for his translation of the Bible into Latin (the Vulgate), and writings are extensive.