He has 'le coeur comme un artichaud'. Eddy fumbled for her high school French. 'A heart like an artichoke?' 'Oui. He has a leaf for everyone, but makes a meal for no one.
Poppy Z. BriteTags: love food artichokes
Some 1.2 billion people in the world still have too little to eat; the same number today suffer from being overweight…..For the first time in 100 years medical experts are predicting that life expectancy in developed countries will fall. Thanks to obesity our children face the prospect of dying younger than us.
Felicity LawrenceTags: food
He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.
Michael PollanTags: politics food french guilt chocolate americans chocolate-cake connotations semantics word-association
Life itself is the proper binge.
Julia ChildVegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn.
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.
Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I've worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold.
Oh, I'll accomodate them, I'll rummage around for something to feed them, for a 'vegetarian plate', if called on to do so. Fourteen dollars for a few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my food cost fine.
Tags: food cooking anti-vegan anti-vegetarian gourmand
You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.
Joel SalatinThere are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma GandhiTags: humanity food god religion poverty bread hunger
But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals
Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .
Tags: food risk risk-taking eating foolishness company cannibalism cannibals dining
Marry, don't marry,' Auntie Aya says as we unfold layers of dough to make an apple strudel.
Just don't have your babies unless it's absolutely necessary.'
How do I know if it's necessary?'
She stops and stares ahead, her hands gloved in flour. 'Ask yourself, Do I want a baby or do I want to make a cake? The answer will come to you like bells ringing.' She flickers her fingers in the air by her ear. 'For me, almost always, the answer was cake.
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: Frequently there must be a beverage.
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