Sound Bites: William Carlos Williams
“To be hungry is to be great”–William Carlos Williams “To be hungry is to be great” is the name of a poem from a collection called An Early Martyr and […]
“To be hungry is to be great”–William Carlos Williams “To be hungry is to be great” is the name of a poem from a collection called An Early Martyr and […]
“Every poem is like a potato latke.”–Li-Young Lee I’ve taken this quote somewhat out of context because I love the vivid image it conjures. I’ve only made latkes or […]
“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”–C.S. Lewis This quote is from Surprised by Joy, an autobiographical account of how Lewis came to embrace theism in general and Christianity […]
“I have discovered that there is romance in food when romance has disappeared from everywhere else.”–Ernest Hemingway From 1920 to 1924, a young and relatively unknown Ernest Hemingway wrote for The […]
I recently came across this witticism in my reading: “A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.”–A. P. Herbert The context is “Trott v. Tulip: […]
“If you enjoy it, you understand it.”–Gertrude Stein This quote is taken from an interview between Stein and a radio interviewer called William Lundell. This interview took place during Stein’s […]
“To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.”–Roland Barthes, from “Reading Brillat-Savarin” in The Rustle of […]
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”—Virginia Woolf “The lamp in the spine does not light on beef and prunes,” she adds wryly, […]
“Cooking is a language through which society unconsciously reveals its structure.” —Claude Lévi-Strauss In The Origin of Table Matters, Lévi-Strauss explains and elaborates on his use of a “culinary triangle” […]