urbanfoodie

*20-something, filipina american urbanite
(Minneapolis via NYC, SF, & the Chicagoland area)
*creator, consumer, and all-around enthusiast of food
Jan 30
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Q: I’m sincerely curious about brain, and not just because of the Indiana Jones movie. But I’m afraid. How would you talk me into it?

A: I would tell you to harden the fuck up and try it. It’s not like you’re going to a restaurant and they’re putting a pile of dog shit in front of you. You see what I mean? Nobody’s saying, “Here’s a big plate of broken glass.” It’s real food. In a lot of places in the world, this is food they eat every single day. In Asia and throughout Europe, these cuts of meat are part of their everyday diet. Why should we turn up our nose to what’s considered normal by the rest of the world?

” Vanity Fair talks to offal Chef Chris Cosentino, exposes the lack of imagination of the typical American palette.

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Jun 16
“Through hummus, we can achieve so much.”

Majdi Wadi, one of the owners of Holy Land in Minneapolis, as quoted in a NYTimes article on the hummus phenomenon. 

It’s true. Hummus has pulled me through more than one impoverished week as a grad student and saved me during many a potluck. Thank you, Hummus!

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Mar 3
Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. — Julia Child (via picquotes)

Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. — Julia Child (via picquotes)

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Jan 8
“What I miss is the society. Lunch and dinner are the two occasions when we most easily meet with friends and family. They’re the first way we experience places far from home. Where we sit to regard the passing parade. How we learn indirectly of other cultures. When we feel good together. Meals are when we get a lot of our talking done — probably most of our recreational talking. That’s what I miss. Because I can’t speak that’s’s another turn of the blade.” Roger Ebert’s “Nil by Mouth“ will break your heart. (via newsweek)

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Dec 21
“In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face is that, in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new.”

Anton Ego, ‘Ratatouille’

Still slays me.

(via katherinespiers)

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Dec 14
“Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue; it is a great, an infinite learning that is given to us, a knowledge of the world, the fullness and the splendor of all knowledge. And it is not our acceptance of it that is bad; what is bad is that most people misuse this learning and squander it and apply it as a stimulant on the tired places of their lives and as a distraction rather than as a way of gathering themselves for their highest moments. People have even made eating into something else: necessity on the one hand, excess on the other; have muddied the clarity of this need, and all the deep, simple needs in which life renews itself have become just as muddy.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (Letter #4, July 16, 1903)

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Oct 21
“When we eat together, when we set out to do so deliberately, life is better, no matter your circumstances.” Thomas Keller in the introduction to his new Ad Hoc cookbook (via this well-articulated review from Eat Me Daily).

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Jul 25
“If you would spend just a little bit of time learning about the consequences of the choices you make each day — what you buy, what you eat, what you wear, how you interact with people and animals — and start consciously making choices that would be beneficial rather than harmful.” Jane Goodall, in an interview with the latimes.com (via regilovesveggies)

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Jun 15
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” Eleanor Roosevelt (via justbesplendid) (via quote-book)

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