Food for Thought #216

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight… ~ M. F. K. Fisher (The Art of...

Food for Thought #215

He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food… of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and dullness of buns… He planned dinners, of enchanting aromatic foods… endless dinners, in which one could alternate flavor with flavor from sunset to dawn without satiety, while one breathed...

Food for Thought #214

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. ~ Alex...

Food for Thought #213

Americans love cooking shows. Come to think of it, how many of us are eating when we watch a cooking show? As we watch the chef perform his or her magic, the humble ham sandwich we’re gnawing on briefly transubstantiates into whatever the chef’s preparing. There’s always a small communion...

Food for Thought #212

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what’s cheese? Corpse of milk. ~ James...

Food for Thought #211

Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light. ~ Nigel...

Food for Thought #210

Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world. ~ Leigh...

Food for Thought #209

It is chief of this world’s luxuries…..When one has tasted it, he knows what Angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented. ~ Mark Twain (Samuel...

Food for Thought #208

There never was a good knife made of bad steel. ~ Benjamin...

Food for Thought #207

Unfortunately, Martha’s recipes, though suitably complex, fall a tad short if you’re looking for aphrodisiac cooking, perhaps only because everything about a Martha recipe, from the font it’s printed in to the call for sanding sugar, with appended notes on where to find such a thing, simply...