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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, May 25, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Permalink 0

The most important point to consider, when making a vegetable salad, is that the ingredients should be of the very finest and freshest you can find. This may be an obvious stipulation, yet it is surprising how often it is not adhered to.–Simon Hopkinson, Week In Week Out

Simon Hopkinson is an English chef and author who started cooking at the age of 16. He is author of Roast Chicken and Other Stories, which in 2005 was voted the “most useful cookbook of all time” by a panel of British food-world peers. Taken from his much-loved columns in The Independent, Week In Week Out brings together 52 stories about ingredients with their associated recipes.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, May 13, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, May 13, 2011 Permalink 0

by Sim ón de Swaan

…To bring a home-grown apple or a palm full of raspberries in from the garden is a different experience altogether from that of taking them off a supermarket shelf. And isn’t that what we all want – food that brings us the most possible pleasure and delight?–Nigel Slater, Tender, Volume 2

Nigel Slater is an English cook and food writer. He is a regular contributor to The Guardian and the author of eleven books about the pleasures of cooking and eating. He can be seen on the BBC or on his own website.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, May 11, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Permalink 0

by Sim ón de Swaan

A well-stocked freezer full of things you made earlier – soups, stews, chilli con carne, anything that suits reheating – is also a godsend on those nights when you just can’t be bothered to cook.–Henry Dimbleby & John Vincent, Leon Book 2: Naturally Fast Food

Henry Dimbleby and John Vincent were founders and owners of Leon restaurants in London, and have revolutionized the concept of fast food.

Click here for interview with owners explaining why they opened Leon.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, May 10, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Tuesday, May 10, 2011 Permalink 0

by Sim ón de Swaan

The farmer in me also makes it hard for me to throw things away. Everything on our farm used to used; my mother would always have one eye on the next meal. If you had a chicken, the carcass would be boiled up for soup. When the pig was killed the fat would be rendered down and kept in jars for frying. If something gives you flavour, I find it very wasteful to throw it away.–Richard Corrigan, The Clatter of Forks and Knives

Richard Corrigan is an Irish chef born in Dublin but raised in Ballivor, County Meath. He earned a Michelin star in 1998 and has been awarded many other culinary accolades, including Outstanding London Chef at the London Restaurant Awards. He is the author of two cookbooks.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, May 9, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, May 9, 2011 Permalink 0

by Sim ón de Swaan

So many of our happiest childhood memories are connected to food. Picnics by the sea, afternoon tea with Granny, Mammy’s lamb stew, or treacle pudding around the kitchen table. How many times have I heard, “I remember Aunt Margie used to make a wonderful apple pie. I wish I’d asked her for the recipe.” So don’t leave it until it’s too late.–Darina Allen, Forgotten Skills of Cooking

Darina Allen is the owner of Ballymaloe Cookery School in Shanagarry, County Cork, Ireland. In addition to being a teacher, food writer, newspaper columnist, cookbook author and television presenter she is a leader in Ireland’s Slow Food movement. Allen is a founder of the first Farmers Markets in Ireland, and her school is run on an organic farm.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, May 6, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, May 6, 2011 Permalink 0

by Sim ón de Swaan

The three-Martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?–Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States of America (1913-2006), was then incumbent Presidential candidate running against Jimmy Carter. who condemned the practice of having luxurious mid-day meals that could be written off as tax expenses.

Click here to listen to the 3-martini lunch song.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, May 5, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, May 5, 2011 Permalink 0

by Sim ón de Swaan

Never hesitate to take the last piece of bread or the last cake; there are probably more.–Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms: Etiquette of the Table (1880)

The entire book is scanned for reading online. Click here to read it.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, May 4, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Permalink 0

by Sim ón de Swaan

It isn’t only fictional heroes to whom toast means home and comfort. It is related of the Duke of Wellington – I believe by Lord Ellesmere – that when he landed at Dover in 1814, after six years’ absence from England, the first order he gave at the Ship Inn was for an unlimited supply of buttered toast.–Elizabeth David, English Bread and Yeast Cookery (1977)

Elizabeth David was British food writer and author of eight cookbooks published during her lifetime, and five more published posthumously. She won the prestigious Glenfiddich award for her book English Bread and Yeast Cookery. In the 1960s she was hailed as the person who transformed the eating habits of middle- class England.

Click here to listen to interview with Jill Norman, her publisher.

Click here to watch a scene from a documentary about her life.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, May 3, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Tuesday, May 3, 2011 Permalink 0

by Sim ón de Swaan

When I’m old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.–Ava Gardner

Hollywood leading actress of from the 1950s through the 1970s. Married three times to actor Mickey Rooney; to jazz musician Artie Shaw; and lastly to singer and actor Frank Sinatra. She was also romantically involved with Howard Hughes and Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín.

At the end of her life she suffered from emphysema brought on by a lifetime of smoking. She died at the age of 67 from pneumonia after having had two strokes which left her bedridden.

Click here to listen to Ava Gardner in the movie Show Boat singing Can’t Help Lovin´dat Man, which clearly she did.

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.