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“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.”
― Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology
― Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology
“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.”
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“When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's 'The Thieving Magpie,' which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“The three of us ate a fine supper of grilled trout with sorrel cream sauce, and red potatoes out of Britney's old garden behind the ruins of the Watling place, and watercress sautéed in butter for hardly a moment with a dash of vinegar, and cream custard with wild blackberries for dessert.”
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“I cannot go any further without mentioning my favourite biscuit of all time, now sadly, tragically, extinct. The oaty, crumbly, demerara notes of the long-forgotten Abbey Crunch will remain forever on my lips. I loved the biscuit as much as anything I have ever eaten, and often, in moments of solitude, I still think about its warm, buttery, sugary self.”
― Eating for England: The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at Table
― Eating for England: The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at Table
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