I come from a coffee-loving family, and you can always tell when my sister and I have been around, because both of us collect all the dead coffee from everyone's morning cup, pour it over ice, and drink it. This is a disgusting habit.
From Laurie Colwin
We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by.
The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time.
One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.
The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.
We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.
My idea of a good time abroad is to visit someone's house and hang out, poking into their cupboards if they will let me.
It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.
Cooking is like love. You don't have to be particularly beautiful or very glamorous, or even very exciting to fall in love. You just have to be interested in it. It's the same thing with food.
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