“I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still.”
Source: Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
“Why would anyone use the word “eatery?” As in, “oh, it’s over there between the readery and the drinkery but thankfully not downwind of the shittoria.”
Source: Stern Plastic Owl
“Si l'on avait demandé à Hélène ce qu'elle désirait le plus à cet instant précis, sa réponse n'aurait pas porté sur la fortune ou l'amour d'un homme. Ce qui occupait les rêves de la jeune femme depuis le début de la matinée, c'était une bonne raclette.”
Source: 8 nouvelles érotiques inédites
“so I was in desperate need to bever which is a verb for when you consume a beverage. And if you say it isn’t and I agree with you, then I simply ask the question why 'bever' isn’t a word. 'Feed' is a word. You feed on food, but you don’t bever a beverage? That won’t do, so I must make it do, and now it has been done.”
Source: A Dragon, A Pig, and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar...and other Rambunctious Bites
“...a more interesting question is whether we just ate dinner or a round of tapas, or appetizers?”
Source: Philly Stakes
“I would come to appreciate that food is sacred, not a commodity, that life is a blessing, not a chore — and that the Earth is My Home, not a resource! People in my generation and in those to come, are paying for this shortsightedness of “What Was In.”
Source: Living Like The Future Matters: The Evolution of a Soil to Soul Entrepreneur
“She had begun to suspect that in order to live, sometimes you simply had to leap into the gap left by sorrow, the only hope that you would feel the solid ledge of the other side under your feet as you fell.”
Source: The Lost Art of Mixing
“Today we may be living in high-rise apartments with over-stuffed refrigerators, but our DNA still thinks we are in the Savannah. That’s what makes us spoon down an entire tub of Ben & Jerry when we find one in the freezer and wash it down with a jumbo Coke.”
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“It's like my Dad always used to say: "Interactive gimmicks are better than sleepcooking gimmicks." He didn't say that all the time, but he was alive for a long time and he talked a lot. That assemblage of words probably found its way out of his mouth.”
Source: What's On the Menu?
“Milk is food for the beginning eater. A gulpable essence distilled by the mother from her own more variable and challenging diet.
(from "On Food and Cooking")”