“Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.”

— Douglas Adams

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English writer and humorist 1952–2001

Ron Finley American fashion designer and urban gardener

Ron Finley at TED2013 (2013)

“One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Eating Animals

Source: Eating Animals

“Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged.”

Max Tegmark (1967) Swedish-American cosmologist

Consciousness as a State of Matter https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.1219

“Al was looking at me in disbelief. “Not your lover?”
“No.”
“But he is Rachel candy,” Al said, his confusion too honest to be faked.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

“Now, Stuart, as you will discover if you have not done so already, believes that the principal raison d'etre of food is to conceal from public view the hideous pattern on the plate beneath.”

Julian Barnes book Talking It Over

Page 28.
Talking It Over (1991)

“For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.”

Anthony Bourdain book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Kitchen Confidential (2000)
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

“A glass is a glass and a plate is a plate”

Mariano Rajoy (1955) Spanish politician

24 September, 2015
As President, 2015
Source: El Mundo http://www.elmundo.es/enredados/2015/09/24/5603d50222601d4c0a8b4584.html

“Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.”

Charles de Lint (1951) author

“Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night”, p. 265
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)
Context: “You’re confusing me.”
“But not deliberately so,” Coyote says. “Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.”

“I have heard the rumours,” said the captain, directing his attention to the food on his plate.
“Ah, but rumours,” said Lebret easily, “may not be trusted. Appearances, you see, can trump reality.”

Adam Roberts book Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea

Source: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014), Chapter 2, “The Captain’s Last Supper” (p. 10)

“What's that plate that's above a saucer but below a plate?”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

Podcast Series 3 Episode 4
On Life

“Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.”

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