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Wendell Berry: Daily Food Quote, June 29, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, June 29, 2011 Permalink 0

“Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating. (pg. 88, “Think Little”)”—Wendell Berry (The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry)

Wendell Berry: Daily Food Quote, June 27, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, June 27, 2011 Permalink 0

by Jonell Galloway

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.— Wendell Berry

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, June 24, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, June 24, 2011 Permalink 0

by Sim ón de Swaan

Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on. Moreover, no heat of controversy is induced by mention of the atmospheric conditions (seeing that we are all agreed as to what is a good day and what is a bad one) and where there can be no controversy there can be no intimacy in agreement. But tastes in food differ so sharply…that a pronounced agreement in them is of all bonds a union the most intimate. Thus, if a man hates tapioca pudding he is a good fellow and my friend.–A. A. Milne, “Lunch” (1934)

Alan Alexander Milne was an English author, best known for his book about a teddy bear named Winnie the Pooh.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, June 23, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, June 23, 2011 Permalink 0

by Sim ón de Swaan

I must….descant a little upon the mint-julep, as it is, with the thermometer at 100 degrees F., one of the most delightful and insinuating potations that ever was invented, and may be drunk with equal satisfaction when the thermometer is as low as 70 degrees.–Captain Frederick Marryat’s diary (1838)

Captain Frederick Marryat (July 10, 1792 – August 9, 1848) was an English Royal Navy officer, novelist, and a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known for a widely used system of maritime flag signaling.

Click here for a mint julep recipe.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, June 22, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, June 22, 2011 Permalink 0

by Sim ón de Swaan

He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.–Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (April 1, 1775 – February 2, 1826) The Physiology of Taste

Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, a French lawyer, magistrate, and politician, wrote one of the most celebrated works on food, Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of Taste), which was published only months before his death.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, June 16, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, June 16, 2011 Permalink 0

by Sim ón de Swaan

[A Comice pear is] sweetly and subtly perfumed…so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who have to pick, ship, handle and store it in constant fear of ruinous spoilage.–Waverley Root, Food

Waverly Root, author of Food: An Authoritative and Visual History and Dictionary of the Foods of the World, was an American journalist and writer, best known for the book The Food of France published originally in 1958, and is still in print today. He died in 1982. Click here to read his obituary.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, June 8, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, June 8, 2011 Permalink 0

by Jonell Galloway

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.–Wendell Berry (1954-)

Wendell Berry is a Kentucky poet, novelist, essayist, philosopher and farmer. He has always remained close to the land, continuing to farm on his family farm, and this is reflected in much of his work. His most well known book, The Unsettling of America, provides a classic critique of industrial agriculture which is foundational to today’s agrarianism and a precursor of the Slow Food movement and the current food revolution taking place in the U.S.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, June 7, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Tuesday, June 7, 2011 Permalink 0

by Jonell Galloway

One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener’s own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.—Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry was born in Kentucky in 1934. He has always promoted a responsible kind of agriculture that is integrated into one’s everyday life. Because he promoted this vision of food and agriculture long before the Slow Food movement started, he is viewed by Slow Food as having laid the foundation for the American Slow Food movement and the move toward a more sustainable and ethical agriculture.

You can view his books and biography on the official Wendell Berry site.

Click here to listen to the 2-part series “Building a Slow Food Nation,” including an interview with Wendell Berry.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, June 6, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, June 6, 2011 Permalink 0

by Sim ón de Swaan

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.–D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

D. H. Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, best known for his novels Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Read more on the official D. H. Lawrence website.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, June 3, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, June 3, 2011 Permalink 0

by Sim ón de Swaan

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.–Federico Fellini, Italian film director

Federico Fellini (1920-1993) was one of the most influential and widely respected film directors of the 20^th century.

More detailed information about Federico Fellini can be read on the Fellini site.

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