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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 25, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, August 25, 2011 Permalink 0

The best number for dinner party is two – myself and a damn good head waiter.–Nubar Gulbenkian, 1965

Nubar Gulbenkian (1896–1972) was an Armenian petroleum magnate and socialite born in the Ottoman empire. Click here to read more about about him.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 24, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, August 24, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simon de Swaan

A hungry man is not a free man.–Adlai Stevenson II, 1952

Adlai Stevenson ran for the office of the Presidency in 1952 and 1956 against Dwight D. Eisenhower but lost the election both times. After his election to the White House, President Kennedy appointed Stevenson U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, where his most famous moment occurred on October 25, 1962, during an emergency session of the U.N. Ambassador Stevenson was grandson of Adlai Stevenson I. who was Vice President under President Grover Cleveland from 1893 to 1897.

Click here to listen to Adlai Stevenson talking to the Soviet Ambassador to the U.N. at the time of the Cuban missile crisis.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 17, 2011
Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 9, 2011
Let my People GO!

French Food Quote: Daily Food Quotes, August 23, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Tuesday, August 23, 2011 Permalink 0

by Jonell Galloway

The funeral home employee asked the widow if her husband were incinerated, would she rather it be in a French oven or an Italian oven. She replied: “Oh, a French oven! My husband couldn’t stand Italian food!–Alphonse Allais

L’employée des pompes funèbres demandait à la veuve si on brûlerait son mari qu’on devait incinérer, dans un four français ou un four italien : “Oh ! monsieur, le four français ! Mon mari ne pouvait pas sentir la cuisine italienne ! — Alphonse Allais

French Food Quote: Daily Food Quote, August 22, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, August 22, 2011 Permalink 0

by Jonell Galloway

Thus it is Gastronomy, to tell the truth, which motivates the farmers, fineyardists, fishermen, hunters, and the great family of cooks, no matter under what names or qualifications they may disguise their part in the preparation of foods.–Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826)
The Physiology of Taste (1825)

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 22, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, August 22, 2011 Permalink 0

Those who have a profound indifference to the pleasures of the table are generally gloomy, charmless and unamiable.–Lucien Tendret

Lucien Tendret (1825-1896) was a French lawyer and gastronome, and great nephew of Brillat-Savarin.

French Food Quote: Daily Food Quote, August 18, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, August 18, 2011 Permalink 0

by Jonell Galloway

You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients.–Julia Child (1912 – 2004)

Julia Child, (1912 – 2004), American cookbook writer, TV personality and tremendous contributor to the food world, introduced Americans to the techniques of French cooking with her classic book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volumes I and II.

Julia Child brought French food to post-war America. When her husband Paul was posted to Paris, she studied at L’Ecole du Cordon Bleu, and went on to form her own cooking school with fellow students Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle. The threesome went on to write the 2-volume classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking, which covered all the basic techniques and dishes of classic French cuisine.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 18, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, August 18, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

We didn’t starve, but we didn’t eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was.–Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)

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Bernard Malamud is considered one of the most prominent figures in Jewish-American literature, a movement that originated in the 1930s and is known for its tragicomic elements. Malamud’s stories and novels, in which reality and fantasy are frequently interlaced, have been compared to parables, myths, and allegories, and often illustrate the importance of moral obligation. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the great American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His 1966 novel The Fixer, about anti-Semitism in Tsarist Russia, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 4, 2011
Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 1, 2011
Life is a Tragedy Filled With Joy
Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 9, 2011
Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 11, 2011

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 17, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, August 17, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally’s cellar.—Thomas Jefferson, 3^rd President of The United States of America

At the age of 33, Thomas Jefferson (1743 to 1826) drafted the Declaration of Independence. More a writer than an orator, he was elected President in 1800, serving two terms. Monticello, his house on the hill outside Washington, D.C., is known for its beautiful views over the Potomac and the surrounding countryside.

Click here to read his official biography on the White House website.

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French Food Quote: Daily Food Quote, August 16, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Tuesday, August 16, 2011 Permalink 0

by Jonell Galloway

Noncooks think it’s silly to invest two hours’ work in two minutes’ enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.–Julia Child

Julia Child, (1912 – 2004), American cookbook writer, TV personality and tremendous contributor to the food world, introduced Americans to the techniques of French cooking with her classic book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volumes I and II.

Julia Child brought French food to post-war America. When her husband Paul was posted to Paris, she studied at L’Ecole du Cordon Bleu, and went on to form her own cooking school with fellow students Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle. The threesome went on to write the 2-volume classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking, which covered all the basic techniques and dishes of classic French cuisine.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 16, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Tuesday, August 16, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

[Breadbaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world’s sweetest smells…there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.-–M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating

Mary Francis Kenney Fisher (July 3, 1908 – June 22, 1992). a Californian by birth, was a prolific and well-respected author of 20 books, many of which dealt with the preparation, history and culture of food. She spent the first three years of her marriage in France, where she learned how to live and eat economically and was introduced to various wines, pastries and cheeses. This was to determine the path of her life.