James Beard | The Rambling Epicure

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 7, 2012

Published by Jonell Galloway + Tuesday, August 7, 2012 Permalink 0

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, 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.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, March 23, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simon de Swaan

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.–James Beard

Dubbed as the father of American gastronomy, James Beard was the author of numerous cookbooks, a teacher and mentor to many professional cooks, as well as an inspiration to many home cooks who learned how to cook and to appreciate the foods that are regionally specific to the United States.