"“Amico, don’t forget a sprinkling of hot peppers to remind me of where I’ve been, and a fistful of parmigiano to celebrate where I am now.”" Anon.

"Il cibo è OK," he said. "Ma vengo qui soprattutto per la conversazione."

“The food is OK,” he said. “But I come here mostly for the conversation.” I thought I heard a man say to his companion who were leaving a in a Montepulciano restaurant as I was arriving…….

……. a Greek girl once said to me after several glasses of Raki “Don’t tell me only about what you had to eat: rather tell me also about who you ate it with!”

“Food and the need of it could be a great tool in the quest for world peace it can traverse all cultures, borders, religions and prejudices” S.R.H.

“Mangia, Vivi e Futtatnini “   Sicilian saying: “Eat, Live and do Silly Things”

"The Guide says: ‘The first phase is characterized by the question How can we eat? the second by the question Why do we eat? and the third by the question Where shall we have lunch?

 Douglas Adams ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

In the French language only one sound or letter separates verbs Nourrir (too feed) from Mourrrir ( to die)……..Pourrir (to rot) which brings me to food wastage SRH

‘Mi casa e su casa’   “my house is your house”. Spanish welcome phrase

“There is no need to lecture people into the kitchen…. I prefer to lure them in!”   S.R.H.

“Put your phones away whilst at table……concentrate on who you are with!” S.R.H.

“Eating well and having a good level of health lengthens our lives and gives us a feeling of well-being ……food is therefore our first medicine.” Hippocrates, I think

“Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating”

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.”

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pill form."

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends”.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Il maschio italiano ha solo due funzioni: mangiare et fare l’amore”

‘One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well.’

Virginia Woolf

“There is no more sincere love than the love of food.”

George Bernard Shaw

How can one cook and be cynical at the same time? SRH

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“A man could starve in a room full of artichokes” Kingsley Amis

“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime”.

The origin of this thought is highly contested. I have seen claims that that the adage is Chinese, Native American, Italian, Indian, or Biblical. Sometimes it is linked to Lao-Tzu, Maimonides, or Mao Zedong or More recently to The Mahatma (Gandhi)

“When you give of yourself, you receive more than you give..” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“Let things taste the way they are.” – Alice Waters, chef, author, and owner of Chez Panisse

“The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.” – Carlo Petrini, founder of the International Slow Food Movement

“Like pornography, junk food might be tough to define but you know it when you see it.” – Mark Bittman, food journalist

“The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.” – Michael Pollan, author, journalist and professor at UC Berkeley

“Omega-3s occur naturally in food like fish, chicken and eggs, and plants to a lesser extent. Why do we need to get it from bread?” – Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, author of Food Politics

“The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.” – Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation

“Organic farming appealed to me because it involved searching for and discovering nature’s pathways, as opposed to the formulaic approach of chemical farming. The appeal of organic farming is boundless; this mountain has no top, this river has no end.” – Eliot Coleman, pioneer organic farmer, author of The New Organic Grower and Four-Season Farm

“This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without conscience, without knowledge; folks, this ain’t normal.” – Joel Salatin, farmer and author of Folks, This Ain’t Normal; You Can Farm

“The nation’s fiscal health is dependent upon the health of the next generation. When we consider the cost of inaction in a matter of national security, lives are at stake.” Debra Eschmeyer

. “We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese.”

” Un uomo senza pancia e come un cielo senza stelle”

 'A tavola non s'invecchia': 'At the table, one does not grow old’

“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti” Sophia Loren

Make dinner not war! SRH