42 quotes found
“First we eat, then we do everything else.”
“There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.”
“A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.”
“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.”
“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.”
“...after rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news.”
“It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I...”
“put Rachel facing the door, in a faint subtle effort to make her know that if he had only had enough money and had managed to finish the thesis, he might well have asked her to be his hostess and s...”
“There are very few men and women, I suspect, who cooked and marketed their way through the past war without losing forever some of the nonchalant extravagance of the Twenties. They will feel, until...”
“Inwardly, though, she was blown empty by a giant breath, and while they stood waiting for Mr. Henshaw to tie up the Clara she knew that she would never be the same poor, ignorant woman of an hour a...”
“I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert the reassert our dignity in the face of poverty and war's fears and pains, is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill...”
“Perhaps they should feel this safe sand blow away so that their heads are uncovered for a time, so that they will have to taste not only the solid honesty of my red borscht, but the new flavor of t...”
“I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face a...”
“I let myself exist mainly through my children... [but] I could not even guess at the lives my children led.”
“Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.”
“The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight...[Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like ...”
“I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a...”
“I cannot count the good people I know who, to my mind, would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.”
“Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They sh...”
“You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is likefeathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!”
“All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural ...”
