July 2009
1 post
3 tags
“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”
– Michel de Montaigne
June 2009
2 posts
1 tag
“The minute you send a dish you’re not 100 percent happy with, you might as...”
– Gordon Ramsay
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May 2009
1 post
“When I fed the hungry, they called me a saint. When I asked why people were...”
– Dom Helder Camara
April 2009
1 post
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“The hour is striking so close above me,
so clear and sharp,
that all my senses...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours
March 2009
3 posts
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“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends, you talk to your...”
– Moshe Dayan
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January 2009
2 posts
Taza Chocolate by The New York Times →
Brandt Beef True Natural Video →
A video that takes you from “farm-to-fork” and all stages in between.
November 2008
0 posts
2 tags
“If a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move...”
– Eleonora Duse
October 2008
2 posts
2 tags
“Never lose heart in the power of the gospel.”
– Charles Spurgeon
August 2008
4 posts
2 tags
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
– Gandhi
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
– Indira Gandhi
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“Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like...”
– Thomas Alva Edison
“Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;
And give us not to think so far away...”
– Robert Frost, “A Prayer in Spring”
July 2008
1 post
“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist, but the ability to start...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
June 2008
2 posts
Little Nemo in Slumberland →
May 2008
1 post
April 2008
1 post
“When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman first. You repeat and...”
– Jacques Pépin
March 2008
2 posts
“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“You can’t lead the people, if you don’t love the people. You...”
– Cornel West, University professor, Princeton University.
February 2008
1 post
“Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases.”
– Chinese Proverb
December 2007
2 posts
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery "RECIPE:"...
INGREDIENTS & DIRECTIONS FOR SAMPLING EXCHANGE EXAMPLING & CHANGE The ingredients in our recipes come from the earth and the oven. They come from interfering and letting be. We use organic and natural ingredients wherever possible and our recipes are blissfully inefficient. We spend premium prices on the...
As when a traveler seeks in vain to slake his thirst at a hillside spring soiled by drops from his cupped hands, so, unsatisfied, I part from you. - Ki No Tsurayuki
November 2007
1 post
“To invite a person to your house is to take charge of his happiness for as long...”
– Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
October 2007
20 posts
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“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer...”
– Aldous Huxley
“All sorrows are less with bread.”
– Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
“We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to...”
– Epicurus
“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food...”
– Mark Twain
“He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who...”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage. Lettuce pray.”
“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them...”
– Voltaire
“Lord, I do praise Thee for this sense of joyful fellowship with Thee again. Give...”
– Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
“I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class...”
– Henry David Thoreau
“These individuals have riches just as we say that we “have a fever,”...”
– Seneca
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
– Albert Einstein
“Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.”
– Heinrich Heine
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very...”
– Niels Bohr
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and...”
– Mark Twain
“In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive...”
– Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance
“Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.”
– Thomas Henry Huxley
“If at first you don’t succeed…so much for skydiving.”
– Henry Youngman
“The great source of pleasure is variety.”
– Samuel Johnson
September 2007
5 posts
Do Not Stop →
“We’re not going to talk about spirituality and religion. Although I will...”
– Dr. Randy Pausch
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
– Leo Tolstoy