Archive for the ‘Food for thought’ Category

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Out of the mouthes of babes, cooks and food critics come these entertaining observations about one of our favourite subjects.

Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
Hippocrates (c. 460-370 BC)

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
Sheilah Graham, Hollywood columnist

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a new star.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), Physiologie du Goût (1826)

Enchant, stay beautiful and graceful, but do this, eat well. Bring the same consideration to the preparation of your food as you devote to your appearance. Let your dinner be a poem, like your dress.
Charles Pierre Monselet, French author (1825-88), Letters to Emily

Food is not about impressing people. It’s about making them feel comfortable.
Ina Garten, The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Fran Lebowitz, American author

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W.C. Fields (1880-1946), US comedian

Cheese it is a peevish elf
It digests all things but itself.
John Ray (1627-1705), English Proverbs (1670)

Parsley
Is gharsley.
Ogden Nash, Further Reflections on Parsley (1942)

The mountain sheep are sweeter
But the valley sheep are fatter.
We therefore deemed it meeter
To carry off the latter.
Thomas Love Peacock (1786-1866), The War Song of Dinas Vawr (1823)