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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 22, 2011

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Those who have a profound indifference to the pleasures of the table are generally gloomy, charmless and unamiable.–Lucien Tendret

Lucien Tendret (1825-1896) was a French lawyer and gastronome, and great nephew of Brillat-Savarin.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 18, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, August 18, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

We didn’t starve, but we didn’t eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was.–Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)

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Bernard Malamud is considered one of the most prominent figures in Jewish-American literature, a movement that originated in the 1930s and is known for its tragicomic elements. Malamud’s stories and novels, in which reality and fantasy are frequently interlaced, have been compared to parables, myths, and allegories, and often illustrate the importance of moral obligation. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the great American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His 1966 novel The Fixer, about anti-Semitism in Tsarist Russia, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 4, 2011
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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 9, 2011
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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 17, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, August 17, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally’s cellar.—Thomas Jefferson, 3^rd President of The United States of America

At the age of 33, Thomas Jefferson (1743 to 1826) drafted the Declaration of Independence. More a writer than an orator, he was elected President in 1800, serving two terms. Monticello, his house on the hill outside Washington, D.C., is known for its beautiful views over the Potomac and the surrounding countryside.

Click here to read his official biography on the White House website.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 16, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Tuesday, August 16, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

[Breadbaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world’s sweetest smells…there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.-–M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating

Mary Francis Kenney Fisher (July 3, 1908 – June 22, 1992). a Californian by birth, was a prolific and well-respected author of 20 books, many of which dealt with the preparation, history and culture of food. She spent the first three years of her marriage in France, where she learned how to live and eat economically and was introduced to various wines, pastries and cheeses. This was to determine the path of her life.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 15, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, August 15, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

Green beans, or string beans as they are usually called, must be done [boiled] till very tender — it takes nearly an hour and a half.—Sarah Josepha Hale, The Good Housekeeper (1839)

Sarah Josepha Hale was an American writer and editor who wrote the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” She is also known for campaigning for the creation of the Thanksgiving holiday, and Hale served as editor of Ladies’ Magazine from 1827-1836 and Godey’s Lady’s Book from 1837-1877.

Click here to listen to “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 11, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, August 11, 2011 Permalink 0

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by Simón de Swaan

You can’t possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It’s absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.–Oscar Wilde

Quote by Oscar Wilde, in “The Importance of Being Earnest” (1895).

The “ Importance of Being Earnest”, said to be “A Trivial Comedy for Serious People,” is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play’s major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways.

The official Oscar Wilde website can be viewed here.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 9, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Tuesday, August 9, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe.–Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan (1934-1996), best known for his 13-part television series Cosmos, was an American astronomer and popular science writer. His motto was, “Our mission is to awaken the broadest possible public to the wonders of nature as revealed by science.”

Click here to see an excerpt of his television show.

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, August 5, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, August 5, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simon de Swaan

Rational habits permit of discarding nothing left over, and the use to which leftovers (and their economic allies, the wild things of nature) are put is often at the heart of a cooking’s character.–Richard Olney

Richard Olney (1835-1917) was an American cookbook author, most noted for The French Menu Cookbook, and included in The Guardian‘s “The 50 Best Cookbooks.” The Guardian said: “On a summer afternoon at his home in Provence in 1999, the American food writer Richard Olney went to lie down after a light lunch, and never woke up. He was 72, and had led an interesting and fulfilling life (his friends included the writer James Baldwin, the poet John Ashbery, and the painter John Craxton). He had also, unlike many people, been able to cook his own last meal.”

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 4, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, August 4, 2011 Permalink 0

by Sim ón de Swaan

That last cherry soothes a roughness of my palate.–Robert Browning

Robert Browning (1812-1889), a Victorian English poet and playwright, including Pippa Passes (1841) and Elizabeth Barrett (1846). In 1844, he saw Poems‘s , and was so impressed that he soon convinced her to become Elizabeth Barret Browning.