“You want to see the treat vanish and the happy face to appear and when this happens, you feel great about yourself.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“The way we reward children with food is based on folk memories of a food supply that has not existed in the West for decades, when white sugar was so rare it seemed to sparkle like snow.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Love and travel are both powerful spurs to change.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Don’t be afraid of cooking, as your ingredients will know and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.”
Source: Nose to Tail
“Our Toast
Not to the Future, nor to the Past;
No drink of Joy or Sorrow;
We drink alone to what will last;
Memories on the Morrow.
Let us live as Old Time passes;
To the Present let Bohemia bow.
Let us raise on high our glasses
To Eternity--the ever-living Now.”
Source: Bohemian San Francisco, Its Restaurants and Their Most Famous Recipes: The Elegant Art of Dining
“This is a celebration of cuts of meat, innards, and extremities that are more often forgotten or discarded in today’s kitchen; it would seem disingenuous to the animal not to make the most of the whole beast: there is a set of delights, textural and flavorsome, which lie beyond the fillet.”
Source: Nose to Tail
“All the foods you regularly eat are the ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it’s all up for grabs.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“From our first year of life, human tastes are astonishingly diverse. As omnivores, we have no inbuilt knowledge of which foods are good and safe. Each of us has to use our senses to figure out for ourselves what is edible, depending on what’s available. In many ways, this is a delightful opportunity. It’s the reason there are such fabulously varied ways of cooking in the world.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“We create our own pattern of eating, as distinctive as a signature.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Traditional cuisines across the world were founded on a strong sense of balance, with norms about which foods go together, and how much one should eat at different times of the day.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat