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“There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet - so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even learned to make them myself against those times when I have no other source of supply.”

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Book:A Window Over the Sink

Source: A Window Over the Sink

“In that intensely busy time of children and work, soup became my stalwart friend and I learned its true value. Anyone who's been there knows. You're busy, too much to do, time vanishes, the kids are relentless, and everyone is hungry all the time. Something as comforting, delicious, and practical as soup is like gold.”

Knows Children Kids Values Too Much Food Gold Busy Practicals Hungry Meals Soup Delicious Comforting Relentless True Value Stalwart

Book:Love Soup: 160 All-New Vegetarian Recipes from the Author of The Vegetarian Epicure

Source: Love Soup: 160 All-New Vegetarian Recipes from the Author of The Vegetarian Epicure

“At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.”

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Book:Roundabout Papers (from the Cornhill Magazine): To which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon

Source: Roundabout Papers (from the Cornhill Magazine): To which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon

“Some sensible person once remarked that you spend the whole of your life either in your bed or in your shoes. Having done the best you can by shoes and bed, devote all the time and resources at your disposal to the building up of a fine kitchen. It will be, as it should be, the most comforting and comfortable room in the house.”

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Book:French Country Cooking

Source: French Country Cooking

“On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.”

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Author:E. B. White

“Food is the most primitive form of comfort.”

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Author:Sheilah Graham Westbrook

“What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing! It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles.”

Ifs World Kind Long Hard Facts Food Hot Cooking Add Certainty Mathematical Settling Thick Soup Puzzles Comforting Flour Sure Thing Crosswords Hard Days

Author:Nora Ephron