Quotes About Nourishment

if you've eaten your fill since childhood, you've plenty of time to think of love and nothing else.

Why do you have to study together?" Mr. Ray asked. "When I was a boy we didn't study in droves. And what help is all the fudge?" "Nourishment, Papa, nourishment," Betsy explained. "We need strength.

She strode across the room like she had meant to be here all along and busied herself in the kitchen for a moment, filling the electric kettle to make herself a hot chocolate. She dumped two packages into a mug and looked at the pile of chocolate dust she intended to consume. Was this supposed to make up for something, this dust? Was it supposed to repair whatever in her that had ripped in two? That was a lot to ask of a mug of cocoa dust.

El hombre recibe un cuerpo, pero no el sustento para el mismo. Se le otorga una mente, pero no el contenido de la misma. Para vivir ha de actuar, pero antes de poder hacerlo debe saber la naturaleza y el proposito de su acción. No puede conseguir alimento sin conocimiento del mismo ni del modo de obtenerlo.

This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.

Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.

When I'm in a blue mood, I head for the kitchen. I turn the pages of my favorite cookbooks, summoning the prospective joyful noise of a shared meal. I stand over a bubbling soup, close my eyes, and inhale. From the ground up, everything about nourishment steadies my soul.

If you ask me, that's reason enough to keep a kitchen at the center of a family's life, as a place to understand favorite foods as processes, not just products.

At its heart, a genuine food culture is an affinity between people and the land that feeds them. Step one, probably, is to live on the land that feeds them, or at least on the same continent, ideally the same region. Step two is to be able to countenance the ideas of food and dirt in the same sentence, and three is to start poking into one's supply chain to learn where things are coming from.

Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most significant statement of what we are made of and what we have chosen to make of our connection to home ground.

The daily work—that goes on, it adds up. It goes into the ground, into crops, into children's bellies and their bright eyes. Good things don't get lost.

Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of dirt.

At its heart, a genuine food culture is an affinity between people and the land that feeds them.

Besides wanting you to have a healthy child, I want you to be as healthy as possible. The Food for Thought sections at the end of certain chapters describe how the nutrients your unborn baby needs will also benefit your own health, now and for many years to come.

There aren't many things we humans need to do. We need to eat, we need to drink, we need to make love. And the French attitude is, okay, we should do those things very well.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive... from Crow and Weasel

Any healthy man can go without food for two days--but not without poetry.

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.

If we are not careful to daily drink of the 'living waters,' we can easily and slowly become strangers to the Lord and his ways and to our own divine identity and purpose.

Yesterday's meal will not satisfy today's hunger. It is regular input that provides energy and health.

Even prophets and madmen require sustenance.

The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible.

Not only has chronic undernourishment been in decline, but so have catastrophic famines

I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.