“You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.” SportsCommunityFranceGermanyVillageMagnificentFacilityHollandPristine Author:Graham Taylor
“I was literally fabricated over in France and born about six months after the boat landed at Ellis Island. This was the heart of the Depression. For the first 12 years of my life we lived in a terrible ghetto on the East River.” YearsFirstsHeartSportsBornMonthsTerribleSixRiversEastBoatFranceIslandsSix MonthsGhettoEllis Island Author:Bob Cousy
“There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only culture now extant in which business so completely dominates the national scene that sports, crime, sex, death, philanthropy and Easter Sunday are money-making propositions.” StatesCultureSexSportsUnitedUnited StatesCrimeSceneEnglandInstanceFranceMaking MoneySundayPhilanthropyEasterPropositionsBelgiumHollandEaster Sunday Book:The Folks at Home Source: The Folks at Home
“In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and the cooking for cooking's sake. You can talk with a concierge or police officer about food in France as a general rule. It is not the general rule here. Classical cuisine, which I hope we are going back to, means certain ways of doing things and certain ways of not doing things. If you know classical French cooking you can do anything. If you don't know the basics, you turn out slop.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayMeanArtFormCertainTurnsSportsEnjoyCan DoSeriousPoliceCookingSakeFranceOfficersPolice OfficerBasicsComplicationCuisineFrench Cooking Author:Julia Child