Pearl Bailey | The Rambling Epicure

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 27, 2012

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, February 27, 2012 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

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

Pearl Mae Bailey (1918-1990) was an American actress and singer. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway début in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. In 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special, Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale.

You can see her perform in the video at the bottom of the page.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, May 2, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, May 2, 2011 Permalink 0

by Sim ón de Swaan

I don’t like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo priestess, I would conduct my rituals there.–Pearl Bailey, Pearl’s Kitchen

Pearl Bailey was an American Tony-award winning actress for her role in Hello Dolly! (1968). President Richard Nixon appointed her America’s “Ambassador of Love” in 1970, three years before she published Pearl’s Kitchen.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 25, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, February 25, 2011 Permalink 0

http://www.davidddownie.com/by Simón de Swaan

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.