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Quote by Alain de Botton

“Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.”

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Alain de Botton is a Swiss writer and philosopher known for his books on philosophy, art, and culture. His work is characterized by its accessible exploration of profound themes, which has won him a wide audience. more

“What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe, and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and balms and spices... It means the economy of your great-grandmother and the science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It means, in fine, that you are to see imperatively that everyone has something nice to eat.”

Mean Doe Art Knowledge Economy Nice Modern Food Fine Cooking Fruit Grandmother Culinary Chemistry Hospitality Spices Herbs Cookery Arabian Great Grandmother Calypso Medea

Author:John Ruskin

“Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are impoverished and stretches its resources to give a hearty sustenance and cheer? Who warms you in the winter and cools you in the summer? Yet who also is capable of doing honor to your richest table and impressing your most demanding guests? Soup does its loyal best, no matter what undignified conditions are imposed upon it. You don't catch steak hanging around when you're poor and sick, do you?”

“The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.”

Men Food He Man Boast Potatoes Ancestry

Author:Thomas Overbury

“Garlic is as good as ten mothers.”

Mother Food Ten Cooking Culinary Garlic

Author:Les Blank

“The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.”

People Heart Art Language Food Cooking Gentle Barriers Friendly Culinary Civilized Hurdle Language Barriers

Author:Samuel Chamberlain

“My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.”

Kind Seems Past Sound Food Cooking Surface Bridges Kitchen Temples Culinary Significance Mystical Transfers Odor

Author:Pearl Bailey

“When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.”

Long Past Food Broken Taste Smell

Book:Remembrance of Things Past

Source: Remembrance of Things Past

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