Quotes About Tradition

According to tradition, they are named for the first thing their mother sees when they are born, although to my mind that would lead to a lot of kits being called Roof of Cave or Wall of Cave or Floor of Cave.

Cedarstar was the first of the nine cats to step forward. He bowed his head to Brokentail and meowed, "I give you a life to live by the warrior code. Remember it well, Brokentail, and let it be your guide. Wiser cats than you or I have lost their way without it.

Plenty of she-cats have kits and then return to the warriors' den." But do they become Clan leader?

It is the technique, above all, that makes a meal Chinese or not.

Siblings have always marked out territory through food.

Japan shows the extent to which food habits evolve.

We tend to automatically associate hearty meat dishes with men and lighter salads and sweets with women, and these stereotypes are replicated in cultures as different as France and Japan.

what we are prepared to accept in the way of the technology of eating is often determined more by cultural forces than function.

Traditional cuisines across the world were founded on a strong sense of balance, with norms about which foods go together, and how much one should eat at different times of the day.

Women have a special relationship with chocolate mostly because our culture tells them to. It goes back to the old claptrap about sweet treats being for 'ladies', while savoury tastes for men.

The childhood foods that we ache for are very specific to the place and the time where we grew up.

Childhood food memories, like family jokes, are often untranslatable to outsiders.

When the flavour of white bread and processed meat are linked in your memory with the warmth and authority of a parent and the camaraderie of siblings, it can feel like a betrayal to stop eating them.

One of the functions of traditional cuisines is to reinforce these shared childhood food memories.

To eat these foods again in the new country was a way of holding on to the grandmothers and mothers who had first cooked with them. Often, however, the remembering through food is bittersweet, because even when you have tracked down every last herb and spice, the missing ingredient is the cook. You find you don't want pasta 'just like Mama used to make'; you actually want Mama herself.

Unlike traditional food, which is remembered jointly within families or communities, mass-produced food and drink is remembered across continents.

In most places, for most of history, children's food has not existed as a separate category after the age of weaning.

In India, children's food is just food.

It's not birthday cake in itself that is the problem. It's the surrounding culture of food, where sweet treats are ever-present, consumed without ceremony.

Much of what we learn about eating comes from the way our parents feed us.

In Japan, food filters into every aspect of the culture.

There are signs that the Japanese themselves consider their excellent cuisine as an essential part of what it means to be Japanese.

Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

Many men carry their religion as a church carries its bell--high up in a belfry, to ring out on sacred days, to strike for funerals, or to chime for weddings. All the rest of the time it hangs high above reach--voiceless, silent, dead.