Abbey

“Losing a beloved family heirloom is a very real personal loss; they're things that cannot ever be replaced or re-created. But perhaps the most precious heirlooms are family recipes. Like a physical heirloom, they remind us from whom and where we came and give others, in a bite, the story of another people from another place and another time. Yet unlike a lost physical heirloom, recipes are a part of our history that can be re-created over and over again. The only way they can be lost is if we choose to lose them.”
― Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

“I have chosen to write about this painfully ironic experience because my illness and the brutal side effects of the treatment caused me to realize that food was not just a huge part of my life; it basically was my life. Food at once grounded me and took me to other places. It comforted me and challenged me. It was part of the fabric that made up my creative self and my domestic self. It allowed me to express my love for the people I love and make connections with new people I might come to love.”
― Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

“With each breath, I am new. I’m a seed, I’m a flower, and then I’m a seed again. And that’s exactly how God made it work.”
― Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe

“But a person’s life is their own. Few sins are greater than trying to squeeze someone else into the shape you require them to be.”
― Emily St. James, Woodworking