Runs with knives!
I’ve recently been re-reading the new edition of MA GASTRONOMIE by Fernand Point and have again been taken by jottings from his notebook, some of which I have included below. As far as cuisine is concerned, one must read everything, see everything, hear everything, try…
From Kenny Shopsin, owner and cook at Shopsins in New York: “The way that I choose to function is to pick an arbitrary, stupid goal, become totally involved in it and pursue it with vigor. And what happens to you in that pursuit is your…
Show me another pleasure like dinner that comes every day and lasts an hour. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
“The next person who tells me Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn/etc are professional tools is getting kicked in the teeth.” TEXT FROM LAST NIGHT: “70 feet underwater and I sharted my wetsuit. Tide Pen won’t clean this up.” “Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only…
“The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.” – Robertson Davies “Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.” – Thomas H. Huxley
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
— Emily Dickinson