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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.”

Found Food Source Comfort Forgotten Comforting Comfort Food Crumpets

Book:A Window Over the Sink

Source: A Window Over the Sink

“All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.”

Seems Found Food Needed Cooking Culinary Dishes Vitamins

Author:William Feather

“I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.”

Home Found Wife Food Cooking Very Good Dinner My Wife Sat Culinary Handsome Beef Venison Pasties

Book:The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Source: The Diary of Samuel Pepys

“The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.”

Years Firsts Would Be Found Given Community Food Cooking Culinary Regulation Printed Childbirth Poland Bagels

Author:Leo Rosten

“Acorns were good until bread was found.”

Found Progress Food Improvement Bread Acorns

Author:Francis Bacon

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”

“The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.”

Heart Found Sun Food Wall Promise Seasons Weight Cooking Woods Culinary Rats Pulse Dungeons

Author:Bernard DeVoto

“While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of ability than priority. p.187”

People Two Matter Lasts Found Hours Ability Pay Food Television Internet Bills Majority Phones Spending Decades Priorities Budgets Nutrition Broadband

Author:Michael Pollan

“Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.”

“When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.”

Actors Found Food Poet Musician Cooking Culinary Jewels Waiter

Author:Andre Soltner

“All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience.”

Life Science Found Process Brain Consciousness Food Drug Eating Experience Plant Substance Biology Chemistry Cognition Mediation Biochemistry Pharmacology Body Chemistry

Author:Dennis McKenna

“Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the perspiration of the sky or a sort of saliva of the stars, or the moisture of the air purging itself, nevertheless it brings with it the great pleasure of its heavenly nature. It is always of the best quality when it is stored in the best flowers.”

Found Stars Pleasure Quality Air Tree Sky Food Flower Cooking Dawn Heavenly Culinary Honey Nevertheless Moisture Perspiration Purging Saliva

Author:Pliny the Elder

“Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.”

Earth Found Food Nuts Dishes Truffles

Author:John Evelyn

“17. One of the secrets of successful living is found in the word balance, referring to the avoidance of harmful extremes. We need food, but we should not overeat. We should work, but not make work our only activity. We should play, but not let play rule us. Throughout life, it will be important to find the safety of the middle ground rather than the imbalance of the extremes.”

Source: Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future