“Another sad comestive truth is that the best foods are the products of infinite and wearying trouble. The trouble need not be taken by the consumer, but someone, ever since the Fall, has had to take it.” NeedsFallTakenTroubleFoodProductsTruth IsEatingInfiniteCookingConsumersEating FoodBest Food Book:Personal Pleasures Source: Personal Pleasures
“It is strange that a person may find it easy to protect himself from: eating Haraam, oppression and injustice, adultery, theft, drinking khamr (alcoholic drinks), and from unlawful looking, but it is hard for him to restrain the movement of his tongue. How often do we see people who are very cautious about falling into shameful deeds or injustice, but their tongue lashes against the living and the dead and they don't mind it?” PeopleMindMayPersonsHardFallEasyMovementStrangeDrinkProtectEatingDrinkingInjusticeDeedsTongueOppressionAlcoholicsAdulteryTheftCautiousShamefulLashesUnlawfulAlcoholic Drinks Author:Ibn Taymiyyah
“Reading Claire Cooks novel is like eating some exotic dish about which you say, Wow, this is great! Whats in it? The ingredients here are: intelligence, humor, poignancy, revelation and, perhaps best of all, true originality. Ready to Fall seems to me to be ready to soar.” SeemsFallReadingNovelReadyEatingCooksRevelationsIngredientsWowOriginalityDishesSoarExoticClairePoignancy Author:Elizabeth Berg
“In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down and necks of lovers.” CountryFallHousePovertyLoversEatingDown AndSnowBoardsNecksGrandmotherChickensSoupMudMy GrandmotherFalling DownSnow FallingChicken Soup Book:The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001 Source: The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001