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“If the home is a body, the table is the heart, the beating center, the sustainer of life and health.”
― Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes
― Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes
“Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread.”
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“I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragility.”
― Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
― Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
“Being a politician, he was never dissuaded from giving any body his opinion by the mere fact that they were not inclined to hear it.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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