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Food in the Movies: French Toast

There are a number of great food movies but so many more great scenes with food. Kramer vs. Kramer is probably best known for the ice cream scene but the movie starts and ends with french toast. The closing scene of Big Night is very similar in illustrating family bonding through food but what makes Kramer vs. Kramer work better is that though we don't all come from the Big Night chef culture, food is simple, universal and can be –should be– cooked and shared by anyone, given a little practice.

Joan Gussow

As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists. ~Joan Gussow

Overseer, Chefs Collaborative; former chair & professor emeritus (nutrition), Columbia University Teachers College; director, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation; advisory board member, Center for Food Safety and Ecology Action; author, This Organic Life from Activist Cash

Food Quotes: Miss Piggy

After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps.  ~Miss Piggy

Michael Symon

The biggest thing that home cooks can do is the same things that great chefs and restaurateurs do, and it's not a hard thing—change your shopping habits. Buy local when you can. Buy natural and organic when you can. What you put into a dish is what you get out of it. If you cook a piece of shitty chicken, chances are you're going to get a shitty chicken dinner. If you get a naturally-raised chicken, your chances of success are much greater.

Michael Symon
via SeriousEats

Paul Prudhomme

We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!

Food Quotes

There are many great food quotes...

I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
Erma Bombeck

Kurt Vonnegut

"And the people would eat up all the food, gobble, gobble, yum, yum, and it would become excrement and memories."

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
novelist
11/11/22-4/11/07