"There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving."

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Source : "‘Top Chef’ Judge Gail Simmons Reveals Her Favorite Ketchup". Interview with Michelle Madden, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.

Gail Simmons

#Thinking Quotes #Doe Quotes #Chef Quotes

“A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.”
“It's true that mostly in the last years, from the moment when Portugal was subjected to this policy of austerity, imposed by Europe, that I think many Portuguese became a little bit more left-leaning, and so did I too, I could not not care about the situation. I had to deal with it in some way.”
“To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.”
“Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.”

Source : Isaac Barrow (1859). “The theological works: In 9 vols. Ed. ... by Alexander Napier”, p.185
“I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.”
“The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.”
“That's the magic of revisions - every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.”
“The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.”

Source : John Lescroart (2009). “A Plague of Secrets”, p.90, Penguin

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