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“A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.”

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Author:Norman Douglas

“In Ethiopia, where I was born, all the cooks are women. When I grew up in Sweden, my mom and my grandmother did predominantly all the cooking. Then I changed to restaurant kitchens, where all of a sudden there were just more men than women, and I always thought that was weird.”

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Author:Marcus Samuelsson

“Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.”

Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

“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.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.”

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Author:Yotam Ottolenghi

“In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.”

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Author:George Gissing

“Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.”

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Author:Michael Pollan

“A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes.”

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Book:Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction

Source: Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction

“It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.”