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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, March 9, 2011

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Simón de Swaan, Simon Says, The Rambling Epicureby Simón de Swaan

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.–Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, naturalist, historian, philosopher and life-long abolitionist.  The author of the book Walden (1854), where he details his experiences living in a cabin for two years near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, on land owned by his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson. The book is a chronicle of the experience as well as part social experiment and spiritual discovery.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, March 8, 2011

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Simón de Swaan, Simon Says, The Rambling Epicureby Simón de Swaan

The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to turn anyone into a budding gastronome.–Claudia Roden, food writer, Picnic: The Complete Guide to Outdoor Food (1981)

Egyptian born, Claudia Roden studied in Paris and moved to London where she has lived for most of her life. She travels as a food writer and is the author of the James Beard Award–winning The Book of Jewish Food and A Book of Middle Eastern Food, amongst other works.  Her most recent book Arabesque won the Andre Simon Memorial Fund Award for Best Food Book, the Glenfiddich Best Food Book Award, and the Gourmand World Media Special Award of the Jury.

Claudia Roden, photo courtesy of New Yorker.
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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, March 7, 2011

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Simón de Swaan, Simon Says, The Rambling Epicureby Simón de Swaan

Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well mitched they are as body and soul, living partners. —-Andre Simon

André Louis Simon (1877 – 1970) was the charismatic leader of the English wine trade for almost the entire first half of the 20th century, and the grand old man of literate connoisseurship for a further 20 years. In 66 years of authorship, he wrote 104 books. For 33 years, he was one of London’s leading champagne shippers; for another 33 years active president of the Wine & Food Society. Although he lived in England from the age of 25, he always remained a French citizen. He was both Officier de la Légion d’Honneur and holder of the Order of the British Empire.  

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, March 4, 2011

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by Simón de Swaan

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).

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, March 3, 2011

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by Simón de Swaan

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.–Doug Larson

Doug Larson, born February 10, 1926, wrote for the Wisconsin-based newspapers the Green Bay Press-Gazette and the Door County Advocate in the U.S.. Larson’s quotes are catchy, and show up often on T-shirts and the Internet.


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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, March 2, 2011

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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.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, March 1, 2011

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by Simón de Swaan

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.–Bertrand Russell

Described both as the “the greatest philosopher of the 20th century and the greatest logician since Aristotle,” Bertrand Russell went won the 1950 Literature Nobel Prize. He lived to be 97 years old, but not before having been jailed twice, married 4 times and having 3 children.

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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.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 25, 2011

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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.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 24, 2011

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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.

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