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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, September 12, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, September 12, 2011 Permalink 0

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and the passive.–William Ralph Inge, 1920

William Ralph Inge was an English author, Anglican priest, Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral, which provided the appellation by which he was widely known, “Dean Inge.” Author of thirty-five books, he is best known of for his works on Plotinus and neoplatonic philosophy, and on Christian mysticism.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, September 9, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, September 9, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.–W. Somerset Maugham, 1896

W. Somerset Maugham was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer, who also had a medical degree and qualified as a surgeon. He did not practice medicine, but instead made us of his medical background in his writing, as in his 1897 novel Liza of Lambeth, which was a tale of working class adultery.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote: September 8, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, September 8, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feats.–Aldous Huxley, 1929

Aldous Huxley was an English novelist and critic, best known for his novel Brave New World (1931). Besides novels, he published travel books, histories, poems, plays, and essays on philosophy, arts, sociology, religion and morals. Brave New World is so influential that an entire website is devoted to it.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, September 7, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simon de Swaan

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.–Cato the Elder

Cato the Elder was a Roman statesman, referred to as “The Elder” to distinguish him from his great great grandson, Cato the Younger. Although a highly distinguished statesman, he deserves more notice as an author of the first history of Rome, written in Latin.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 31, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, August 31, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

It’s difficult to believe that people are starving in this country because food isn’t available.–Ronald Reagan, 1986

Ronald Reagan was the 40^th President of the United States. A Republican two-term President, he was a former Hollywood actor and 33^rd Governor of the State of California. Throughout his political life his chief aim was to reinvigorate the American people and reduce their reliance on government.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 30, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Tuesday, August 30, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.–Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel, (1900-1983) Spanish filmmaker, who along with Salvador Dali, made a 16-minute short film, “The Andalusian Dog,” that was enthusiastically received by the French Surrealist movement. He met Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca in university, and their work continued to influence his own throughout his life. Click here to watch the film.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 29, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, August 29, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simon de Swaan

He who eats alone chokes alone.–Arab proverb, unknown author

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 26, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, August 26, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simon de Swaan

What is a man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?–Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke, 1943

Karen Blixen was a Danish writer who wrote under the pseudo name Isak Dinesen. She was married to her Swedish second cousin, the Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke. She is best known for her book Out of Africa about her time living on her coffee plantation in the hills of Kenya, and for her short story “Babette’s Feast,” both of which were adapted into Academy Award-winning films.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 25, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, August 25, 2011 Permalink 0

The best number for dinner party is two – myself and a damn good head waiter.–Nubar Gulbenkian, 1965

Nubar Gulbenkian (1896–1972) was an Armenian petroleum magnate and socialite born in the Ottoman empire. Click here to read more about about him.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 24, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, August 24, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simon de Swaan

A hungry man is not a free man.–Adlai Stevenson II, 1952

Adlai Stevenson ran for the office of the Presidency in 1952 and 1956 against Dwight D. Eisenhower but lost the election both times. After his election to the White House, President Kennedy appointed Stevenson U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, where his most famous moment occurred on October 25, 1962, during an emergency session of the U.N. Ambassador Stevenson was grandson of Adlai Stevenson I. who was Vice President under President Grover Cleveland from 1893 to 1897.

Click here to listen to Adlai Stevenson talking to the Soviet Ambassador to the U.N. at the time of the Cuban missile crisis.