
“I'm doing my best to not be too rude about it, but oh my God that Czech food…”
John Banville: Using words to paint pictures of "magical" Prague (2006)
John Banville: Using words to paint pictures of "magical" Prague (2006)
“I'm doing my best to not be too rude about it, but oh my God that Czech food…”
John Banville: Using words to paint pictures of "magical" Prague (2006)
The Nature, Importance and Liberties of Belief (1873)
Context: It is with the mind as it is with the body, in this respect. The physician says to a household: "Here is a great realm of food. Eat that which agrees with you. The same kinds of food do not agree with all people. If you grow healthy on the food that I loathe, that is the food for you, although it disagrees with me; and if I grow healthy on the food that you loathe, that is the food for me, although it disagrees with you." And it is very much so in the matter of believing. All cannot believe the same things, or cannot believe things in the same way.
"But," say men, "believing amounts to nothing if one man may believe one thing, and another man another thing." Well, let me ask, then, is it not possible for truth to be so large that ten men shall believe it differently, and yet each one of them so sectionally believe it, that they shall be all true though none of them has more than partial truth, and that all of them shall compass the whole truth?
“Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.”
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Source: 2000s, Lines marking the introduction of Trump Steaks by The Sharper Image (2007)
In "Jack LaLanne dies at 96; spiritual father of U.S. fitness movement, LosAngeles Times"
Quoted in DNA India (04 March 2015) http://www.dnaindia.com/india/interview-maharashtra-s-beef-ban-is-not-merely-communal-it-is-theocratic-kancha-ilaiah-2066223.
As quoted in "When Bernie Sanders Thought Castro and the Sandinistas Could Teach America a Lesson" http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/28/when-bernie-sanders-thought-castro-and-the-sandinistas-could-teach-america-a-lesson.html by Michael Moynihan, The Daily Beast (28 February 2016)
1980s
"How Lana Condor Unwinds at Home After a Long Day" (4 February 2019) https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/how-lana-condor-unwinds-at-home-after-long-day
To a question as to his cultural identity
Jeet Thayil on why 'Where are you from?' is a complicated question for all of us