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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, September 17, 2012

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If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.–Luis Buñuel

The New York Times was a Spanish-born Mexican filmmaker who worked in Spain, Mexico, France and the United States. When he died at age 83, his obituary in The New York Times called him “an iconoclast, moralist and revolutionary who was a leader of avant-garde surrealism in his youth and a dominant international movie director half a century later.”

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, September 4, 2012

Published by Jonell Galloway + Tuesday, September 4, 2012 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

“Shape is a good part of the fig’s delight.”–Jane Grigson

Jane Grigson was an English food writer. Grigson’s growing interest in food and cooking led to the writing of her first book, Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery (1967), which was translated into French, unusual for an English food writer. Elizabeth David read the book and was impressed by it, and recommended Grigson as a food columnist for The Observer, for which she wrote a column from 1968 until her death in 1990.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 31, 2012

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by Simón de Swaan

Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.–Julia Child

Julia Child was an American chef, author, and television personality. She is best known for bringing French cuisine to the American public with her début cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her subsequent television programs, the most notable of which was The French Chef, which premiered in 1963.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, July 17, 2012
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Aiming for Julia’s glory? No, say cookbook authors, but ‘Mastering the Art’ is less sacrosanct than it once was

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 28, 2012

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by Simón de Swaan

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.–Craig Claiborne

Craig Claiborne was an American restaurant critic, food journalist and book author. A long-time food editor and restaurant critic for The New York Times, he was also the author of numerous cookbooks and an autobiography.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 27, 2012

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A world devoid of tomato soup, tomato sauce, tomato ketchup and tomato paste is hard to visualize. Could the tin and processed food industries have got where they have without the benefit of the tomato compounds which colour, flavour, thicken and conceal so many deficiencies? How did the Italians eat spaghetti before the advent of the tomato? Was there such a thing as tomato-less Neapolitan pizza?–Elizabeth David (1913-1992), An Omelette and a Glass of Wine, 1984

Elizabeth David was a British cookbook writer who, on her return from “exile” in Egypt after WW2, decided that action had to be taken with regard to the quality of food in Britain. She was outright hostile to second-rate cooking and the use of frozen, canned and out-of-season ingredients, and is, in many people’s mind, a precursor of the concept of Slow Food. In any case, she was a primary mover in bringing true traditional home cooking using quality ingredients back into the mainstream in Britain.

All her books are listed here, and most are still available at Book Depository or other online independent booksellers.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 20, 2012

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by Simón de Swaan

A number of rare or newly experienced foods have been claimed to be aphrodisiacs. At one time this quality was even ascribed to the tomato. Reflect on that when you are next preparing the family salad.–Jane Grigson

Jane Grigson was an English food writer. Grigson’s growing interest in food and cooking led to the writing of her first book, Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery (1967), which was translated into French, unusual for an English food writer. Elizabeth David read the book and was impressed by it, and recommended Grigson as a food columnist for The Observer, for which she wrote a column from 1968 until her death in 1990.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 17, 2012

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, August 17, 2012 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.–Elizabeth David

Elizabeth David was a British cookbook writer who, on her return from “exile” in Egypt after WW2, decided that action had to be taken with regard to the quality of food in Britain. She was outright hostile to second-rate cooking and the use of frozen, canned and out-of-season ingredients, and is, in many people’s mind, a precursor of the concept of Slow Food. In any case, she was a primary mover in bringing true traditional home cooking using quality ingredients back into the mainstream in Britain.

All her books are listed here, and most are still available at Book Depository or other online independent booksellers.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 8, 2012

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, August 8, 2012 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

All the gifts are nothing. Money gets used up. Clothes you rip up. Toys get broken up. But a good meal, that stays in your memory. From there it doesn’t get lost like other gifts. The body it leaves fast, but the memory slow.–Meir Shalev, Four Meals

Israeli journalist and television host Meir Shalev is also one of Israel’s most celebrated novelists. His other books include The Blue Mountain and A Pigeon and a Boy, for which he won the Brenner Prize, Israel’s highest literary recognition.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 7, 2012

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by Simón de Swaan

The ultimate aim of civility and good manners is to please: to please one’s guest or to please one’s host. To this end one uses the rules laid down by tradition: of welcome, generosity, affability, cheerfulness and consideration for others. People entertain warmly and joyously. To persuade a friend to stay for lunch is a triumph and a precious honour. To entertain many together is to honour them all mutually. It is equally an honour to be a guest.—Claudia Roden, A Book of Middle Eastern Food, 1968

Claudia Roden is a cookbook writer and cultural anthropologist based in the United Kingdom. She was born in 1936 in Cairo, Egypt. A Book on Middle Eastern Food is a classic in the world of cookbooks, and James Beard referred to it as “a landmark in the field of cookery.”

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 3, 2012

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by Simón de Swaan

One should never refuse an invitation to lunch or dinner, for one never knows what one may have to eat the next day.–Édouard de Pomiane, Cooking with Pomiane, 1962

Édouard Alexandre de Pomiane (1875-1964) was a French scientist, radio broadcaster, and food writer. His best-known works to have been translated into English are and Cooking with Pomiane. His recipes often take pains to demystify cooking by explaining the chemical processes at work.