“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.”
― Mae West
“A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.”
― Samuel Johnson
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.”― William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming”
Ages ago, when I told my brother that I was going to start blogging about gluten-free cooking, he suggested I call the blog Things Fall Apart. Clever, and absolutely on point. That’s the reality of cooking and baking without gluten—gluten is amazing at helping things stick together. All of the gums or other tricks we use to coerce gluten-less flours to stick together only work so well.
“Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.”
― Auguste Escoffier
“It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.”
― M.F.K. Fisher
“People who love to eat are always the best people.”
― Julia Child
“Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.”
― Marcel Boulestin
“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.”
― M.F.K. Fisher