“I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour, milk, saleratus, etc., with a deal of grace. I advise you if you dont know how to make the staff of life to learn with dispatch.” IfsKnowsMayDealsKnow HowGraceImagineFoodTomorrowBreadEtcMilkStaffAdviseSleevesMixingFlour Book:The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
“There were twelve dishes of lamb cooked in different rich sauces, with a monster bowl of strange oddments, which I imagine also belonged to the private life of a sheep, floating in rich gravy.” DifferentRichImagineFoodStrangeMonstersSheepTwelveBowlsDishesFloatingPrivate LifeLambsSauceGravy Book:The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara Source: The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara
“Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex, it's more fun with someone who really likes it. I can't imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.” PeopleWayI CanFunSexImagineSpecialTalentFoodEatingCookingLikesCulinaryLastingNot InterestedLasting FriendshipSpecial Talents Author:Alan King
“I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.” LittlesMadeLastsCoursesPerfectImagineFoodRegardCookingSubtleCulinaryFlavorDessertBittersweetExposingHolding BackExtrovertsFresh FoodPerfect WomanSweets And DessertsPerfect FoodDessert First Author:Graham Kerr
“Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel.... Food = everything you can imagine.” WayFeelsLooksPainJoyImagineFoodHatredGuiltNurturing Author:Susan Powter
“And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it?” WritingSelfUseWaterNatureImagineTreeDesignFoodColorSeasonsDown AndComplexesSugarCarbonElegantOxygenKnockingFixingAssignmentsReplicateNitrogenDistillation Author:William McDonough
“Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.” IfsPovertyBreakImagineFoodTablesCookingKingdomsSoilCulinaryJewelsDesolateSprungTruffles Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
“First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.” FirstsImagineFoodBreakfastHoneyGorgeousImpatientGritSquirrelsCombsFlapjacks Author:Truman Capote
“While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.” ShouldSpiritualTurnsAttentionPracticeImagineFoodTasteEatingFocusedChosenFeedingDeitiesGuruSpiritual Practice Author:Mata Amritanandamayi