"The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it."

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Source : Dan Barber (2014). “The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food”, p.257, Hachette UK

Dan Barber

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“The banker, therefore, is not so much primarily a middleman in the commodity "purchasing power" as a producer of this commodity. However, since all reserve funds and savings today usually flow to him, and the total demand for free purchasing power, whether existing or to be created, concentrates on him, he has either replaced private capitalists or become their agent; he has himself become the capitalist par excellence.”
“There are stages in bread-making quite similar to the stages of writing. You begin with something shapeless, which sticks to your fingers, a kind of paste. Gradually that paste becomes more and more firm. Then there comes a point when it turns rubbery. Finally, you sense that the yeast has begun to do its work: the dough is alive. Then all you have to do is let it rest. But in the case of a book the work may take ten years.”
“I think the mistake people make with horror movies and what makes them successful is a lot of horror movies get made by people who don't really like them, so they don't respect them. And when you like horror and have admiration for it, that community knows that what's important for a horror movie is important for every other kind of movie.”

Source : "Producer Jason Blum on The Lazarus Effect, Paranormal Activity, and loving horror". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2015.
“I'd just like to be able to walk without pain or run without a limp.”
“I'm interested in how the Internet spreads information.”
“The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.”
“Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.”

Source : Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.22, Pan Macmillan
“You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.”

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