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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 3, 2012

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by Simón de Swaan

We plan, we toil, we suffer — in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol’s eyes? The title deeds to Radio City? The Empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs. And, again I cry, how rarely it happens! But when it does happen — then what a moment, what a morning, what a delight?–J.B. Priestley

John Boynton Priestley, OM known as J. B. Priestley, was an English novelist, playwright and broadcaster. He published 26 novels, notably The Good Companions (1929), as well as numerous dramas, such as An Inspector Calls. His output included literary and social criticism.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 2, 2012

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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, February 1, 2012

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, February 1, 2012 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

Sir, respect your dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.–William Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.

Happy New Year!

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, January 9, 2012 Permalink 0

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Wishing you all the best for the New Year.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, December 19, 2011

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by Simón de Swaan

There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.–P.J. O’Rourke

Patrick Jake “P. J.” O’Rourke (1947-) is an American political satirist, journalist, writer, and author. O’Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, December 16, 2011

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by Simón de Swaan

In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous.–Jane Grigson

Jane Grigson was a notable English cookery writer who wrote over 20 cookbooks and whose growing interest in food and cooking led to the writing of her first book, Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery (1967), which was accorded the unusual honour for an English food writer of being translated into French.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, December 15, 2011

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by Simón de Swaan

Little Tommy Tucker
Sings for his supper;
What shall we give him?
White bread and butter.

Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book, c 1744

Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book is the earliest extant printed collection of English language nursery rhymes, published in London in 1744. It was a sequel to the lost Tommy Thumb’s Song Book and contains the oldest version of many well-known and popular rhymes, as well as several that have been largely forgotten.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, December 14, 2011

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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.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, December 13, 2011

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by Simón de Swaan

A warmed-up dinner was never worth anything.–Nicolas Boileau, 1667

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux was a French poet and critic. He was born in the rue de Jérusalem, in Paris, France. He was brought up in the law, but devoted to letters, associating himself with La Fontaine, Racine, and Molière. He is the author of Satires and Epistles, L’Art poétique and Le Lutrin, in which he attacked and employed his wit against what he perceived to be the bad taste of his time.

Boileau did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, as Blaise Pascal did to reform the prose, and was for a long time the law-giver of Parnassus. He was greatly influenced by Horace.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, December 2, 2011

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by Simon de Swaan

Do I dare to eat a peach?–T.S. Elliot, 1917

Thomas Stearns “T. S.” Eliot OM as a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most 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 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.