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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, March 4, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, March 4, 2011 Permalink 0

The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.–Urbain Dubois (1818-1901)

Urbain Dubois, was a pupil of the great Marie-Antoine (or Antonin) Carême, the father of French haute cuisine and a renowned pastry chef. He was author of The Household Cookery Book (1871), amongst other works, his specialty being decorative pieces. He had a preference for Russian service. He was also a fine artist whose food paintings and etchings chronicled the preferences of an early era (see below).

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, March 2, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, March 2, 2011 Permalink 0

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by Simón de Swaan

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.–Adelle Davis (1904 – 1974)

Born in 1904, Adelle Davis was one of the United States’ greatest nutritionists. Author of four bestselling books including Let’s Cook It Right she was a pioneer in seeing the connection between what we eat affecting how we feel. She was instrumental teaching people that a body lacking in proper nutrients can be remedied with an adjustment in diet.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 28, 2011

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by Simón de Swaan

“I’m feeling mighty lonesome
Haven’t slept a wink
I walk the floor and watch the door
And in between I drink
Black coffee
Love’s a hand me down brew
I’ll never know a Sunday
In this weekday room”

Paul Francis Webster

Paul Francis Webster was an American composer who three times won an Oscar for best song. He attended both New York University and Cornell University without ever receiving a degree before he joined the US Navy, and becoming a dance instructor prior to finding his true voice as a lyricist. This song was published in 1948 and recorded by Ella Fitzgerald in 1960.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 25, 2011

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

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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.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 24, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, February 24, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.–Laurie Colwin

Laurie Colwin (June 14, 1944 – October 24, 1992) was an American novelist and food writer, who died in her sleep at 48. Since her death, her following has continued, and all her books are still in print.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 23, 2011

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

by Simón de Swaan

If you’re happy, you eat. If you’re sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It’s, you know, it’s addiction.–Barbara Cook

Photo courtesy of Theater Mania.

Barbara Cook is a Broadway singer and actress who won a Tony Award for her role in The Music Man in 1957. Today she performs in concert and in cabarets.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 22, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.–John Cage

Apart from being a very gifted composer, poet, artist and print maker, John Cage was an amateur mycologist and mushroom collector.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quotes, February 11, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, February 11, 2011 Permalink 0

by Jonell Galloway

Eating with the fullest pleasure – pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance – is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living in a mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.–Wendell Berry