Best quotes by Kate Christensen on Food
Checkout quotes by Kate Christensen on Food
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‟ In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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‟ When I was younger, I read all the great food memoirs, by M.F.K. Fisher and Laurie Colwin and Julia Child and Nicolas Freeling and Ruth Reichl, and felt flooded with a sense of comfort and safety.
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‟ I think there's a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it's really powerful. I think I'm not alone in this.
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‟ I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast.
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‟ Most of all, I love unfussy, unpretentious, simple food made with excellent ingredients. If I'm a snob, it's about quality, not cuisine.
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‟ I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
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‟ Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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‟ 'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.
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‟ There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.
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‟ My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
- Kate Christensen