Raymond Sokolov quotes
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“The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.”
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“Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.”
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“To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the ancienne cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as the hills. But the cookbook record proves that the haute cuisine codified early in this century by Escoffier barely goes back to Napoleon's time. Before that, French food is not recognizable as French to modern eyes. Europe's menu before 1700 was completely different from its menu after 1800, when national cuisines arose along with modern nations and national cultures.”
-- Raymond SokolovSource : Raymond Sokolov (1993). “Why We Eat What We Eat: How Columbus Changed the Way the World Eats”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
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“Sichuan food would not be Sichuanese without the hot chilies that arrived before 1700 from South America.”
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“Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived.”
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“The noncook is in a helpless position, much like that of the car owner who can’t change a tire and has to depend on mechanics to keep his automobile running.”
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“Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.”
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“Only the river is free, always changing but always the same.”
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Source : "Design for knife: can cutlery help people with disabilities?" by Justin McGuirk, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.
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Source : "The New Physics". Book edited by Paul Davies, 1992.
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Source : Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Halo: Number 1 in series”, p.16, Hachette UK
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“something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil...”
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“Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.”
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Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books
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“The work that Christ started but could not finish, I - Adolf Hitler - will conclude.”
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Source : "How To Write a (Good) Sentence" by Adam Haslett, www.slate.com. January 23, 2011.
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Source : Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.238, Pan Macmillan
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