Blueberries are still in season and I’m finished with finals.
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
Quotation from Buddha
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Quotation from Mother Teresa
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Why do some food companies put gelatin in yogurt? To add firmness and consistency. The gross part is (if you are lacto-ovo vegetarian like I am) gelatin is made from the skin, boiled bones, internal organs and intestines of animals like cows, pigs and horses. It’s a by-product of the meat and leather industries. Gelatin is also commonly found in marshmallows, gummy bears, margarine and even beer. Check your food labels!
P.S. Yogurt has a 10-21 day shelf life according to the National Center for Home Food Preservation.
No, the serpent did not
Seduce Eve to the apple.
All that’s simply
Corruption of the facts.
Adam ate the apple.
Eve ate Adam.
The serpent ate Eve.
This is the dark intestine.
The serpent, meanwhile,
Sleeps his meal off in Paradise
Smiling to hear
God’s querulous calling.
Poem by Ted Hughes, Theology
If you think fats and oils are at the top of the food chain, you deserve at least partial credit for a correct answer. But bacteria breaks down oil in this rock-paper-scissors game we call Life.
For the first half of geological time, our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.
Quotation from Richard Dawkins
Salad bars are like a restaurant’s lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
Quotation from Doug Coupland
If you don’t change, then what’s the point of anything happening to you?
Another quotation from Doug Coupland
Food is seduction. Prepared with fresh ingredients and some imagination, it excites the senses and engages the mind. Food is the ultimate foreplay.
Never trust a woman who doesn’t like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed.
Quotation from Federico Fellini
“Nice cookies.”
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I found some turkey vultures sunning themselves by the road after a rain storm near the carcass of a deer. The way they were looking at me, I felt like a fresh cupcake topped with buttercream frosting.
When you look at a cupcake, you’ve got to smile.
Quotation from Anne Byrn
And sometimes things to bed I take,
As prudent sailors have to do;
Perhaps a slice of wedding-cake,
Perhaps a toy or two.
Quotation from Robert Louis Stevensen, My Bed is a Boat
My stomach is growling. Some veggie spring rolls please. Or some warm bread with wine and gouda.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Quotation from Sarah Bernhardt
Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn.
Quotation from Garrison Keillor
“I’m doing you a favor,” she said.
She is too kind and fond
Ever to grieve me,
She has too pure a heart
E’er to deceive me.
Poem by Padraic Colum, Maire My Girl
Well-meaning people tell me I should eat fish. My being a vegetarian seems to bother them. But no, I don’t have to eat fish. Omega-3 fatty acids are available in DHA or EPA supplements made from plant-based algae. Omega-3 is also available in eggs. So there.
Everyone knows that some young bucks among the epicures, by continually dining upon calves brains… have little brains of their own, so as to be able to tell a calf’s head from their own heads; which, indeed, requires uncommon descrimination.
Quotation from Herman Mellville, Moby Dick
I’ve always wondered. There is no place to turn around once you are on the bridge, not that anyone would want to. But if you don’t have the money to pay the bridge toll (“I’m sorry, I left my purse at home”), what could they do to you?
You know what it is? San Francisco is a golden handcuff with the key thrown away.
Quotation from John Steinbeck
One day if I do go to Heaven, I’ll look around and say, ‘It ain’t bad, but it ain’t San Francisco.’
Quotation from Herb Caen
I love Canadians. Not only do they use blubber to keep warm, but their national cocktail is the Bloody Caesar. It’s like a Bloody Mary, except they use Mott’s Clamato instead of tomato juice. And they garnish it with a pickle. (I’ll wait to try the vegetarian version.)
Of a lady come from Cape Cod she remarked: “She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.”
Quotation from Louis Kronenberger
Food companies are warning that sugar shortages may soon affect the supply of cookies, breakfast cereals, chewing gum and chocolate. I’m going to hoard animal cookies. Also M&Ms because they can be used as cash currency in an emergency. What will you hoard?
Sugar shortage means higher grocery prices (Examiner.com) Will people actually try fresh, real food for a change?
Is this an allegory, metaphor or simile?
Autopsy: Bear Killed Woman Who Fed Animals 74-year-old’s Partially Eaten Body Found Outside Her Colorado Home
P.S. It’s a tragedy.
My name is Sera, and I’m a chocoholic.
My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M’s and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.
Quotation from Dave Barry
If toast always lands butter-side down and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?
Quotation from comedian Steven Wright
Five Second Helpings (Snopes.com)
Tutorial: How to Make Skittles Vodka (MixThatDrink.com)
I could live on chocolate. But really, one also needs spaghetti, ice cream and cookies. Plus pizza, cheese and tomatoes. I could live on that. What other foods are so indispensable?
Custom Italian Cannoli Fortune Cookies (Cannoli by Mail) I haven’t tried these but I’m tempted!
How did the Italians eat spaghetti before the advent of the tomato?
Quotation from Elizabeth David, An Omelette and a Glass of Wine
Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
Quotation from Sophia Loren
I’ll be on holiday to Kansas starting next week. Don’t
worry, I’ve scheduled regular updates while I’m gone.
Scared of Storms, Circus Elephants Flee in Kansas (cnn.com)
Forecast: A Tornado Outbreak in Kansas (The Wichita Eagle)
Outbreak of Pruritic Rashes in Kansas Associated with Mites 2004 (cdc.gov)
Investigation of Outbreak of Infections Caused by Salmonella Saintpaul
(cdc.gov)
“The line-storm clouds fly
tattered and swift.
The road is forlorn all day.”
Poem by Robert Frost, A Line–Storm Song
I don’t understand package expiration dates.
How can they make cookies that last a year
without preservatives? How do they sell pudding
packs that last forever without refrigeration?
The Truth About Food Expiration Dates (businessweek.com)
Empires with Expiration Dates (foreignpolicy.com)
The women of this century are neither idle nor indifferent.
They are working with might and main to mitigate the evils
which stare them in the face on every side, but much of
their work is without knowledge. It is aimed at the effects,
not the cause; it is plucking the spoiled fruit; it is lopping
off the poisonous branches of the deadly upas tree…
The tap-root of our social upas lies deep down at the very
foundations of society. It is woman’s dependence. It is
woman’s subjection. Hence, the first and only efficient
work must be to emancipate woman from her enslavement.
From a speech by Susan B. Anthony
Selachophobia, or the fear of sharks, was rare
before the movie Jaws. Luckily, one has a
60% chance of survival in a shark attack.
“What we are dealing with here is the perfect engine, uh, an
eating machine. It’d really a miracle of evolution. All this machine
does is swim and eat and make little sharks, and that’s all.”
Spoken by Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss), Jaws
“Well he came down to earth and he lit in a tree
I said Mr. Purple People Eater, don’t eat me
I heard him say in a voice so gruff
I wouldn’t eat you cuz you’re so tough”
Song by Sheb Wooley, The Purple People Eater
‘Miracle’ Marine Refused to Surrender Will to Live (By SHARON COHEN AP National Writer)
Mortal sins are done willfully and deliberately.
Gluttony is defined as lack of self-control.
But if I lack self-control, I’ll argue in Hell,
can I truly sin deliberately? It’s all so unfair.
What is a Mortal Sin? (SaintAquinas.com)
Wine Allows Guilt-Free Gluttony (BBC News)
“Put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony.”
Quotation from Proverbs 23:2
“Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.”
Quotation from Peter DeVries, Comfort Me with Apples