"The Raw and the Cooked" Quotes
An exploration of the nature of human culture through an analysis of myth and culinary practices.
anthropology | 402 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
Food is good not simply because it is tasty or nutritive but because it is rich in meanings.
Eating is not only a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials.
Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.
The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.
When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, that is what cooking is all about.
The pleasure of eating is an instance of the perfection of being, and the pleasure of the table is an instance of the perfection of life.
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.
