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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 2, 2012

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by Simón de Swaan

A chief maxim in dining with comfort is to have what you want when you want it.—Thomas Walker, The Original, 1835

Thomas Walker was a police magistrate and author. On 20 May 1835 he began publishing The Original, and continued it weekly until the following 2 Dec. It is a collection of his thoughts on many subjects, intended to raise “the national tone in whatever concerns us socially or individually,” but his admirable papers on health and gastronomy form the chief attraction of the work.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 1, 2012

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by Simón de Swaan

The air pulses with the warm smell of lilac, but as we pass each door, the lilac dominance is subdued by heady wafts of asparagus cooking.–Jane Grigson

Elizabeth David was an English food writer. Grigson’s growing interest in food and cooking led to the writing of her first book, The Observery (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, July 31, 2012

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by Simón de Swaan

The artichoke above all is a vegetable expression of civilized living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo. No wonder it was once regarded as an aphrodisiac. It had no place in the troll’s world of instant gratification. It makes no appeal to the meat-and-two veg. mentality.–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, July 20, 2012

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by Simón de Swaan

Over-the-hill eggplant betrays its age precisely in the same manner as over-the-hill debutantes: slack skin and slightly puckered posteriors.–Dione Lucas

Dione Lucas was an English chef, and the first female graduate of L’Ecole du Cordon Bleu in Paris. Lucas was fundamental in establishing an unprecedented extension of the famous Paris Culinary School in London in the 1930s. She later wrote a book, the Dione Lucas Gourmet Cooking School Cookbook.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, July 19, 2012

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by Simon de Swaan

A boiled egg raised its little lid and revealed its buttercup yolk.–Colette

Colette was the surname of the French novelist and performer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. She is best known for her 1944 novel Gigi, upon which Lerner and Loewe based the stage and film musical comedies of the same title.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, July 18, 2012

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by Simon de Swaan

“Often, admiring a chef and getting to know him is like loving goose liver and then meeting the goose.”–George Lang

“Mr. Lang, a native of Hungary who escaped a forced-labor camp and imminent execution during World War II, came to New York in 1946 with a few dollars, no English and dreams of becoming a concert violinist,” says The New York Times, but found his calling as a restaurateur. He created the restaurant The Four Seasons and Café des Artistes in New York, as well as a long list of other restaurants.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, July 17, 2012

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by Simon de Swaan

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.–Sheilah Graham

Sheilah Graham Westbrook was an English-born American nationally syndicated gossip columnist during Hollywood’s “Golden Age,” who with Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper wielded power to make or break careers prompting her to describe herself as “the last of the unholy trio.” Graham was also known for her relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald. Click here to read about her life story.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, July 16, 2012

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by Simon de Swaan

To ask a woman to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.–Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf is an American author and political consultant. With the publication of The Beauty Myth, she became a leading spokesperson of what was later described as the third wave of the feminist movement.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, July 12, 2012

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by Simon de Swaan

Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.–Walt Kelly

Walter Crawford Kelly, Jr. or “Walt Kelly,” was an American animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip Pogo.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, June 15, 2012
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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, June 15, 2012

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by Simon de Swaan

All cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.–André Simon

André Simon was a wine merchant, gourmet, and prolific writer about wine. Hugh Johnson describes him as “the charismatic leader of the English wine trade for almost all of the first half of the 20th century, and the grand old man of literate connoisseurship for a further 20 years.”