Judith Jones famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

  • Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

  • Let things taste the way they are.

  • A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

  • The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is Madhusüdana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses

  • If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs

  • Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.

  • We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

  • I love cooking and one of my favourite things to do with my husband is open up the refrigerator.

  • My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes.