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 […]
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Sound Bites: Li-Young Lee
“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 […]
Sound Bites: C.S. Lewis
“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 […]
Sound Bites: Ernest Hemingway
“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 […]
Quick hit: Seeing Picasso in a sausage
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: […]
Sound Bites: Gertrude Stein
“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 […]
Sound Bites: Roland Barthes
“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 […]
Sound Bites: Virginia Woolf
“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, […]
Sound bites: Claude Levi-Strauss
“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” […]
