Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, March 2, 2011

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by Simón de Swaan

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.–Adelle Davis (1904 – 1974)

Born in 1904, Adelle Davis was one of the United States’ greatest nutritionists. Author of four bestselling books including Let’s Cook It Right she was a pioneer in seeing the connection between what we eat affecting how we feel.  She was instrumental teaching people that a body lacking in proper nutrients can be remedied with an adjustment in diet.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, March 1, 2011

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by Simón de Swaan

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.–Bertrand Russell

Described both as the “the greatest philosopher of the 20th century and the greatest logician since Aristotle,” Bertrand Russell went won the 1950 Literature Nobel Prize. He lived to be 97 years old, but not before having been jailed twice, married 4 times and having 3 children.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 28, 2011

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by Simón de Swaan

“I’m feeling mighty lonesome
Haven’t slept a wink
I walk the floor and watch the door
And in between I drink
Black coffee
Love’s a hand me down brew
I’ll never know a Sunday
In this weekday room”

Paul Francis Webster

Paul Francis Webster was an American composer who three times won an Oscar for best song. He attended both New York University and Cornell University without ever receiving a degree before he joined the US Navy, and becoming a dance instructor prior to finding his true voice as a lyricist. This song was published in 1948 and recorded by Ella Fitzgerald in 1960.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 25, 2011

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My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.–Pearl Bailey

Born in 1918, Pearl Bailey was a composer, singer, songwriter, a dancer, then a singer in New York in the early 1940s, touring with the Cootie Williams orchestra, and later a featured singer in night clubs, radio and television. Best known for her theatre role in “Hello Dolly” she died in August of 1990.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 24, 2011

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by Simón de Swaan

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.–Laurie Colwin

Laurie Colwin (June 14, 1944 – October 24, 1992) was an American novelist and food writer, who died in her sleep at 48. Since her death, her following has continued, and all her books are still in print.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 23, 2011

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by Simón de Swaan

If you’re happy, you eat. If you’re sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It’s, you know, it’s addiction.–Barbara Cook

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Barbara Cook is a Broadway singer and actress who won a Tony Award for her role in The Music Man in 1957. Today she performs in concert and in cabarets.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 22, 2011

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by Simón de Swaan

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.–John Cage

Apart from being a very gifted composer, poet, artist and print maker, John Cage was an amateur mycologist and mushroom collector.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 18, 2011

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by Simón de Swaan

For the first time I know what it is to eat. I have gained four pounds. I get frantically hungry, and the food I eat gives me a lingering pleasure. I never ate before in this deep carnal way… I want to bite into life and to be torn by it.–Anaïs Nin (1903 – 1977)

The daughter of Spanish composer Joaquin Nin, Anaïs Nin is most known for her diaries but she is also the author of numerous novels, poems and erotic short stories which were published after her death. In 1974 she was elected into the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 17, 2011

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by Simón de Swaan

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.—Sheila Graham

Sheila Graham was a notable gossip columnist and author during Hollywood’s “Golden Age” who met and became romantically involved with F. Scott Fitzgerald, an affair which she chronicled in her autobiography, Beloved Infidel: The Education of a Woman (1958, with Gerold Frank), a bestseller which was made into a movie starring Gregory Peck and Deborah Kerr. Born in Britain, she became a naturalized U.S. citizen and died in Palm Beach, Florida, in November 1988 at the age of 84.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 14, 2011

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by Chez Pim

Happy and successful cooking doesn’t rely only on know-how; it comes from the heart, makes great demands on the palate and needs enthusiasm and a deep love of food to bring it to life.–Georges Blanc, Ma Cuisine des Saisons

Georges Blanc is considered one of France’s greatest chefs. His restaurant, which he took over from his grandmother, known as “La Mère Blanc,”  and mother, is located in the small village of Vonnas near Bourg-en-Bresse. Bresse is considered by most to produce the best chickens in France, and Blanc’s chicken in cream sauce is hailed as being the best in all of Burgundy. It is his grandmother’s recipe.

George Blanc's poulet à la crème.

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