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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.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, December 16, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, December 16, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous.–Jane Grigson

Jane Grigson was a notable English cookery writer who wrote over 20 cookbooks and whose growing interest in food and cooking led to the writing of her first book, Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery (1967), which was accorded the unusual honour for an English food writer of being translated into French.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 8, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, August 8, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simon de Swaan

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.–Julia Child

Mastering the Art of French Cooking, (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.

Click here to watch her making an omelet on her famed TV show, The French Chef, one of the first cooking shows on television.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, July 13, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, July 13, 2011 Permalink 0

Grilling, broiling, barbecuing – whatever you want to call it – is an art, not just a matter of building a pyre and throwing on a piece of meat as a sacrifice to the gods of the stomach.–James Beard

James Beard, in Beard on Food, (1974). Beard was an American chef and food writer who authored 20 books and was instrumental in bringing French cooking to America in the 1950s. World Culinary Institute offers a brief biography. His legacy lives on with The James Beard Foundation.