Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go. —Anthony Bourdain
To begin is easy, to persist is art. —German Proverb
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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. —Charles Dickens
Both light and shadow are the dance of love. —Rumi
Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that isn’t really you so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place. ―
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January is my favourite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings. —Anne Truitt
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Sometimes you end up being exactly where you need to be at exactly the right time. Maybe it isn’t sometimes. Maybe we are always exactly where we need to be. —Carrie Day
Learn how to see. —Leonardo Da Vinci
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And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face to all the hungry people everywhere, you are not living in reality. The truth is that you either throw the food out or you throw it in, but either way it turns to waste. World hunger will not be solved by finishing the garlic mashed potatoes on your plate. ― Geneen Roth
