“Eggs are very much like small boys. If you overheat them or over beat them, they will turn on you and no amount of future love will right the wrong.” IfsTurnsBoysFoodAmountBeatsCookingEggsCulinaryTurn-onFuture Love Author:Irena Chalmers
“No dish changes quite so much from season to season as soup. Summer's soups come chilled, in pastel colors strewn with herbs. If hot they are sheer insubstantial broths afloat with seafood. In winter they turn steaming and thick to serve with slabs of rustic, crusty bread.” IfsTurnsFoodColorSummerSeasonsHotCookingWinterBreadCulinaryThickDishesSheerSoupHerbsSeafoodRusticChilledPastelSlabs Author:Florence Fabricant
“This [the movie Babe] is the way Americans want to think of pigs. Real-life 'Babes' see no sun in their limited lives, with no hay to lie on, no mud to roll in. The sows live in tiny cages, so narrow they can't even turn around. They live over metal grates, and their waste is pushed through slats beneath them and flushed into huge pits.” ThinkingWayWantRealLyingTurnsSunFoodHugeWasteTinyReal LifeCulinaryMetalsPigsCagesMudPitsBabeHayGrate Author:Morley Safer
“When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn. The heart wakens from coma and its dyspnea ends. Its strengthening pulse is to cross over into campground, to believe that the world has not been altogether lost or, if lost, then not altogether in vain.” IfsWorldBelieveHeartEndsTurnsLostHoursKnownStreetsFoodCrossesMarkCookingEveningVainCulinaryOccupationPausesPulseCocktailsStrengtheningComa Author:Bernard DeVoto