Thought of the day

"Health food may be good for the conscience, but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better."

-Robert Redford

Thought of the day

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”

-Hippocrates

Thought of the day

You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.

Erin Morgenstern

Thought of the day

“Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.”
― Jo Brand

Thought of the day

Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. 
Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, 
in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, 
or planning a birthday party,
when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

-Phylicia Rashad

Thought of the day

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety

-Aesop

Thought of the day

Wine is bottled poetry.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

 

 

Thought of the day

"Food to a large extent is what holds a society together and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences."

Peter Farb and George Armelagos
Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating

 

 

 

 

Thought for the day

"Food responds to our soul's dream as to our stomach's appetite." Joseph Delteil (1894-1978) French writer
‘La Cuisine paléolithique’, 1964)

Thought for the day

“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
― Orson Welles

photo by TEP

Thought of the day

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

photo by TEP

Thought for the day

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. -W.C. Fields

view of Virginia wine region  - photo by TEP