“I cannot go any further without mentioning my favourite biscuit of all time, now sadly, tragically, extinct. The oaty, crumbly, demerara notes of the long-forgotten Abbey Crunch will remain forever on my lips. I loved the biscuit as much as anything I have ever eaten, and often, in moments of solitude, I still think about its warm, buttery, sugary self.”
― Eating for England: The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at Table
― Eating for England: The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at Table
“No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.”
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“maybe death
isn't darkness, after all,
but so much light
wrapping itself around us--”
― Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
isn't darkness, after all,
but so much light
wrapping itself around us--”
― Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
“I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.”
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“Every now and then, I'll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a country where everyone has the right to eat what they want, I want to say for the record that I don't trust these people, that I think something is wrong with them, and that they're probably - and this must be said - total duds in bed.”
― Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
― Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
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