William Lindsey

“Languages only survive if you use them, if you bake in them.”
― Samantha Ellis, Chopping Onions on My Heart: On Losing and Preserving Culture

“If I didn't cook rice, speak my language or even talk with my hands, maybe I was doomed to white bread and cream cheese, or the dubious meals in the canteen.”
― Samantha Ellis, Chopping Onions on My Heart: On Losing and Preserving Culture

“The Babylonian Talmud is full of rabbis shaming and marginalising magic women. They wanted a monopoly on magic.”
― Samantha Ellis, Chopping Onions on My Heart: On Losing and Preserving Culture

“Eight weeks after Katrina, so many people wrote in to the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper seeking recipes they'd lost in the hurricane that they started a column called ‘Rebuilding New Orleans: Recipe by Recipe,’ which turned into a cookbook. It connected people who were trying to cook familiar foods for the people they loved, to make them feel safe in the wake of disaster.”
― Samantha Ellis, Chopping Onions on My Heart: On Losing and Preserving Culture