The Joli Times: 08/30/08

Food for Thought:

Aug 1:

"We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons."
~ Alfred E. Newman

Aug 2:

"As a child my dinner consisted of two choices: take it or leave it."
~ Buddy Hackett.

Aug 3:

I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?' "
~ Jay Leno

Aug 4:

"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."
~ Calvin Trillin

Aug 5:

"He who eats alone, chokes alone."
~ Proverb

Aug 6:

“I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today”
~ Wimpy

From Popeye cartoons. Line often uttered by Popeye's portly friend Wimpy. Of course, "Tuesday" would never come, and so Wimpy constantly secured himself a free lunch. Thus the line is used to jokingly indicate that one would like to "borrow" something without any real intention of ever paying you back.

Aug 7:

"Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good."

~Alice May Brock

Aug 8:

“In our society growing food ourselves has become the most radical of acts. It is truly the only effective protest, one that can —and will — overturn the corporate powers that be. By the process of directly working in harmony with nature, we do the one thing most essential to change the world — we change ourselves.”

~ Jules Dervaes

Aug 9:

At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied,

"Then let them eat cake"

~ Maria Theresa of Spain

Aug 10:

"If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn't organic produce just be called 'produce' and make the pesticide laden stuff take the burden of an adjective?"

~ Ymber Delecto

Aug 11:

" Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today."

~ Sidney Smith (1771-1845)
an English writer

Aug 12:

"Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."

~ Ambrose Bierce

Aug 13:

"Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie."

~Jim Davis

Aug 14:

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well."

~ Virginia Woolf
in "A Room of Ones Own"

Aug 15:

"Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime."~ Edward Abbey

Aug 16:

"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

~ Forrest Gump

Aug 17:

"The food of one person will be sufficient for two, and the food of two people will be sufficient for four, and the food of four will be sufficient for eight".

~ Prophet (salAllahu alayhi wasalam)

Aug 18:

"If life deals you lemons, make lemonade."

~Anonymous

Aug 19:

“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”

~Desiderius Erasmus

Aug 20:

“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.”

~James Beard

Aug 21:

"Bread not only to nourish the body, but the spirit as well. A bread best shared around a table and savoured amongst friends."

~ Alain Coumont

Aug 22:

"I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts."

~Peace Pilgrim

Aug 23:

"I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread."

~ Bill Cosby

Aug 24

"If you can't feed a hundred people, than feed just one"

~Mother Teresa

Aug 25:

"Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with. Give us pasta with a hundred fillings."

~Robert Farrar Capon

Aug 26:

"Enough is as good as a feast."

~ Mary Poppins... practically perfect in every way.

Aug 27:

"Did you ever stop to taste a carrot? Not just eat it, but taste it? You can't taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie"

~Astrid Alauda

Aug 28:

"The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat."

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Aug 29:

"Eat Food, Not to Much, Mostly Plants"

~Michael Pollan

Aug 30th:

ALPHABET SOUP, The ABC's of our Learning Experiment.

This experiment has had multiple layers of learning. Each one of us is experiencing something new everyday. We are more aware of world hunger even though we are not hungry. We are testing our own boundaries, limits, comforts and learning every step or bite of the way. Here are some other words that come to mind:

ALPHABET SOUP:

A

appetite
abundance

B

budget
biodiversity

C

community
coupon

D

dinner
dishes

E

economics
eating

F

food
fruit

G

garden
groceries

H

home grown
health

I

ingredients
imagination more important

J

Jujube
juice

K

kitchen
Kool aid

L

local
lunch

M

money
mac & cheese

N

neighbors
noodles

O

organic
olive oil

P

potluck
Pitzer & Pomona garden

Q

quest
questioning

R

resourcefulness
rice

S

soup
serendipity

T

tomatoes
top ramen

U

universal
understanding

V

vegetables
village

W

water
waste

X

xeriscaping
xylem

Y

yummy
yield

Z

zucchini
zip car