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LINKS
  • Slow Food Movement - a serious reaction to Fast Food in Europe.
  • Chez Panisse - Cooking is plitical....Berkeley style. 30 years since they introduced "organic."
  • Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook
    thinking about what's for dinner.
  • Culinary Quotations - a complete list of those on this site, including FLWright, Alice B. Toklas, Fellini, and more.
  • Dine Like Rabelais (Till the Bill Comes) by E. Rothstein, NYTimes - "Was it really the food that attracted people to restaurants?" or the anxious interplay of hierarchy and democratization."






    • Life     is a combination of
    magic     and
    pasta . -- Fellini
    Dine Like Rabelais (Till the Bill Comes) - B efore sitting down at an inn to eat a meal he couldn't pay for and setting off on a journey to Paris he couldn't afford, the destitute Rabelais ostentatiously put aside a few packages that were sure to attract attention. they were labeled "poison for the king and "poison for the dauphin." MORE by E. Rothstein, NYTimes - "Was it really the food that attracted people to restaurants?" or the anxious interplay of hierarchy and democratization."

    WORDS
    - There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
    And that is my answer, when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love?     --M.F.K. Fisher in The Gastronomical Me

    Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
    --Frank Lloyd Wright (Robbins 65)

    Wine, from long habit, has become an indispensible for my health. - Thomas Jefferson

    I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. -- Mae West (Robbins 161)

    WHINE!
    This Heaven Gives Me a Migraine - Wine Blog. Great links... attitude could improve.

    NoMerlot.com - If you like Merlot, this site is not for you. Or heavily oaked and doubly fermented Chardonnays, this site is not for you.

    Thomas Jefferson and Wine -     PBS show: "Set against the backdrop of Jefferson's Monticello, the great wine regions of France, the Napa Valley and the historic Virginia landscape The Cultivated Life: Thomas Jefferson and Wine guides the viewer on a visual journey of the life of the founding fatehr of American viniculture."

    Quivira Vineyards Dry Creek Valley - Sonoma - "Since 1998 Quivira has been conducting a creek restoration project, to restore the steelhead and Coho salmon population. That project led to a deeper environmental commitment across the entire estate, and in 2002 Quivira began to farm organically and biodynamically. In 2005 Quivira also became a solar-powered winery."

    Shafer Vineyards Stag's Leap District - Napa Valley - "Today, we partner with owls, songbirds, hawks, bats and other wildlife to cultivate our vineyards. Thanks to their efforts, along with cover crops, we don’t use insecticides, chemical fertilizers or rodent poisons. We recycle our water, make our own compost and we’ve converted to 100 percent solar power. "

    LINKS

  • Slow Food Movement - a serious reaction to Fast Food in Europe.
  • Chez Panisse - Cooking is political....Berkeley style. 30 years since they introduced "organic."
  • Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook thinking about what's for dinner.
  • sacatomato.com - What's cookin' in the Capital City!
  • Condiment Packet Museum
  • Burrito Reviews - Going on a road trip...need a decent burrito? Sacramento
  • Become Spoiled Moroccan Royalty for an Evening: The Allure of Ethnic Eateries, by Rena Diamond. In Bad Subjects #19, March 95.


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