Shauna James Ahern famous quotes

After I was diagnosed with celiac disease, I said yes to food, with great enthusiasm. . . . I vowed to taste everything I could eat, rather than focusing on what I could not.
-- Shauna James Ahern

#Taste #Disease #Enthusiasm

I'm thrilled that Alice Medrich, one of America's premier bakers, has embraced teff, buckwheat, oat, and rice flours. She understands that these flours are far more than substitutes for wheat flour. These flavor flours are stars on their own, full of character. Her recipes are sure to entice you to move into the kitchen and start baking.
-- Shauna James Ahern

#Stars #Moving #Character

Gina Hyams has put together a fabulous fun book/gift: Pie Contest in a Box: Everything You Need to Host a Pie Contest. There’s a great book inside, with recipes, pie history, and plenty of inspiration for gathering your friends together to see who can make the best pie. Plus, ribbons! And scorecards! This would be a great party.
-- Shauna James Ahern

#Fun #Book #Inspiration

An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.

For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.

We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment.

We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.

For, as the substance of the brain, like that of the other solids of our body, is nearly incompressible, the quantity of blood within the head must be the same, or very nearly the same, at all times, whether in health or disease, in life or after death.

A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.