"It’s like eating fluke...only you’re playing Russian roulette."
Ruth Reichl on Fugu
Posted by Josh Friedland on May 7, 2008 in Eating | Link
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"You could have a big pile of garbage in front of you, and you sprinkle some sesame seeds and sea salt on it and it's fantastic."
Moby on Sesame Seeds
Posted by Josh Friedland on Mar 19, 2008 in Eating | Link
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"I had two grandmothers. One made delicious food, she spilled over with love. We weren’t eating protein, lipids and glucides, we were eating my grandmother’s love. The other was thin, unloving, she couldn’t give other people pleasure and she was an awful cook. Eating is also about relationships."
Hervé This on Eating
Posted by Josh Friedland on Feb 20, 2008 in Eating | Link
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"I'll eat anything and I'm not a snobby eater. I can enjoy a McDonald's hamburger. You eat these things because you remember it from childhood and it's comforting."
Thomas Keller on Food Snobbery
Posted by Josh Friedland on Feb 6, 2008 in Eating | Link
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"Small Plates will give way to no plates, a trend for even
healthier portion control. All food will be served on oak leaves, in
clam shells or onto your outstretched palm."
Gael Greene on Food Trends
Posted by Josh Friedland on Jan 2, 2008 in Eating | Link
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"Personalized playlists on iPods have replaced albums. TiVo has replaced channel surfing. In this quick-cut, video-on-demand universe, the entree is Walter Cronkite."
Kim Severson on the End of Entrees
Posted by Josh Friedland on Dec 5, 2007 in Eating | Link
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"I well remember my disgust whenever someone offered me a homemade
brownie or, worst of all, an apple. Halloween is the high holy day of
high fructose corn syrup. And if we can keep it to one or two such
days, why not?"
Michael Pollan on Halloween
Posted by Josh Friedland on Oct 31, 2007 in Eating | Link
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"How could some foods be 'common' and others 'posh'? Just as with
clothing, houses and cars, anything that smacks of trying too hard will
compromise status. These are symptoms of insecurity or of trying to
cover something up. In chicken nuggets, for example, we are spared the
reality of the chicken's carcass. This is dishonest and therefore
common."
Mary Killen on Posh Nosh
Posted by Josh Friedland on Jun 26, 2007 in Eating | Link
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"It was an ugly scene, and it was a beautiful one. We lunged at the
flesh. Tore at it. Yanked it toward ourselves in dripping, jagged
hunks, sometimes ignoring the lettuce wraps on the side so we could
stuff it straight into our mouths. We looked, I realized, like hyenas
at an all-you-can-eat buffet on the veldt."
Frank Bruni on Fat
Posted by Josh Friedland on Jun 12, 2007 in Eating | Link
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"Was someone placing little eye droppers into birdie beaks? Had the birds somehow been trained to lap up milk, so to speak, the way a cat might? What was going on here?"
Frank Bruni on Milk-Fed Birds
Posted by Josh Friedland on May 29, 2007 in Eating | Link
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"Do peppercorns look longingly back on an illustrious past when bloody battles were fought, queens seduced, peoples enslaved, lives lost, pirate-infested waters crossed, and worlds discovered for their sake, when their value was such that they were counted peppercorn by peppercorn?"
Carolyn Thériault on Spices
Posted by Josh Friedland on Mar 13, 2007 in Eating | Link
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"Forget oysters. If you want to get a chef all hot and bothered, whisper 'pork belly' in her ear."
Hsiao-Ching Chou on Pork Belly
Posted by Josh Friedland on Feb 23, 2007 in Eating | Link
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"They call me Pork Boy, and as far as I'm concerned, the Year of the Pig
couldn't have come at a better time. At long last, after decades of
abuse, my favorite meat is once again getting a little love."
Russ Parsons on Pig
Posted by Josh Friedland on Feb 21, 2007 in Eating | Link
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"A good piece of beef tendon is a thing of beauty. A perfectly braised piece of beef tendon has the power to make the world around me seem beautiful even when it’s falling apart."
Eddie Lin on Tendon
Posted by Josh Friedland on Feb 4, 2007 in Eating | Link
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"Mama mia. So it came down to this: to get a slice of pizza at Di Fara, you have to go up to a couple of complete strangers and beg for it. Not that I minded, mind you...but there's gotta be something wrong with a system that reduces a man to that."
David Rosengarten on Di Fara
Posted by Josh Friedland on Jan 23, 2007 in Eating | Link
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"I chewed the little piece of sea creature, which tasted half of fish, half of meat. It was delicious. And it was basically forbidden, which was why the little town around me was dying."
Robert Schroeder on Whale
Posted by Josh Friedland on Jan 22, 2007 in Eating | Link
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