Hanadi Eldiri

“People ask me: Why do you write about food, and eating and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, ad about love, the way others do?

They ask it accusingly, as if I were somehow gross, unfaithful to the honor of my craft.

The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry. But there is more than that. 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 write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it . . . and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied . . . and it is all one”
― M.F.K. Fisher

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“No one is too busy to cook.”
― Bee Wilson, First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“If we consistently eat less sugar, it actually changes our sense of sweetness.”
― Bee Wilson, First Bite: How We Learn to Eat