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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, October 28, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, October 28, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf.–Epicurus, c. 300 BC

Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism. Only a few fragments and letters remain of Epicurus’s 300 written works. Much of what is known about Epicurean philosophy derives from later followers and commentators.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, October 27, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, October 27, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.–David Hume, 1751

David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment, and last of the British Empiricists.

Hume’s major philosophical works — A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740), Enquiries concerning Human Understanding (1748) and An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), as well as the posthumously published Dialogues concerning Natural Religion (1779) — remain widely and deeply influential.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, October 26, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, October 26, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.–La Rochefoucauld, 1678

François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs. His literary work consists of three parts: his Memoirs, the Maximes and his letters.

His importance as a social and historical figure is perhaps overshadowed by his importance to literature. He is often referred to as the “master of eloquent melancholy,” because he was known for his dark views of life, and for leading what were perhaps the first salons in Paris.

Wendell Berry on Small-scale Farming in Good Times and Bad

Published by Jonell Galloway + Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Permalink 0

by Jonell Galloway

Quote from Wendell Berry‘s Bringing it to the Table, On Farming and Food, introduction by Michael Pollan

In the time when my memories begin –the late 1930s — people in the country did not go around empty-handed as much as they do now. As I remember them from that time, farm people on the way somewhere characteristically had buckets or kettles or baskets in their hands, sometimes sacks on their shoulders.

Those were hard times — not unusual in our agricultural history — and so a lot of the fetching and carrying had to do with foraging, searching the fields and woods for nature’s free provisions: greens in the spring-time, fruits and berries in the summer, nuts in the fall. There was fishing in warm weather and hunting in cold weather; people did these things for food and for pleasure, not for “sport.” The economies of many households were small and thorough, and people took these season opportunities seriously.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, October 24, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, October 24, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.–Socrates, c 430 BC

Socrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher unlike any other, since he never wrote anything. He is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy.

He believed in teaching people how they ought to live and how to think for themselves, and is therefore compared by many to Jesus and Buddha, even though he had no dogma as such. He was convicted and executed for irreverence toward the Greek gods.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, October 21, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, October 21, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

Once a turnip said, “I taste very good with honey.” “Go you boaster,” replied the honey, “I taste good without you.“–Russian folktale

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, October 20, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, October 20, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.–Herman Melville, 1851

Herman Melville, an American author, is best-known for his novels of the sea and his masterpiece Moby Dick (1851), a whaling adventure dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne and heralded as one of the greatest novels in the English language.

Click here to read more about Moby Dick, which recounts the adventures of the narrator Ishmael as he sails on the whaling ship Pequod under the command of Captain Ahab, in search of the great white whale Moby Dick.

‘Why Read Moby-Dick?’: A Passionate Defense Of The ‘American Bible’
The Origin of “Moby Dick”

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, October 19, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, October 19, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

De gustibus non disputandum es. –Latin proverb

There is no disputing taste.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, September 18, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

The onion and its satin wrappings is among the most beautiful of vegetables and is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can be said to have a soul.–Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden (1871)

Charles Dudley Warner was an American writer and editor. He edited the series American Men of Letters and published a collection of essays, My Summer in a Garden (1871).

Click here to learn more about American Men of Letters on Answers and Encyclopedia.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, October 17, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, October 17, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

Edible: good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.–Ambrose Bierce, c. 1900

Ambrose Bierce was American satirist and writer (1842-1914? He went off to join Sancho Villa and was never seen again).

When William Randolph Hearst asked Ambrose Bierce what he collected, he replied: “I collect words. And ideas. Like you, I also store them. But in the reservoir of my mind. I can take them out and display them at a moment’s notice. Eminently portable, Mr. Hearst. And I don’t find it necessary to show them all at the same time.”