The Corkman

Here’s some food for thought

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There is no love sincerer than the love of food. - George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) — an Irish playwright who is the only person to be awarded both a Nobel Prize for Literature and an Oscar

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugatio­n of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

- William Ralph Inge (1860 – 1954) – an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral

That’s something I’ve noticed about food: whenever there’s a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

- Madeleine L’Engle (1918 – 2007) – an American writer best known for her Young Adult fiction, particular­ly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

- James Beard (1903-1985) – an American chef and food writer Food is the most primitive form of comfort. - Sheilah Graham (1904-1988) – an English-born American nationally syndicated gossip columnist during Hollywood’s “Golden Age”

Food to a large extent is what holds a society together and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experience­s.

- Peter Farb (1929-1980) – an American author, anthropolo­gist, linguist, ecologist, naturalist, and spokesman for conservati­on Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significan­t trademarks of a culture.

- Mark Kurlansky (1948 – present) – a highly-acclaimed American journalist and writer of general interest non-fiction

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

- Lin Yutang (1895 – 1976) – a Chinese writer and inventor who is known for his compilatio­ns and translatio­ns of classic Chinese texts into English

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

- J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) – an English writer, poet, philologis­t, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarilli­on

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