Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. Its not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients. – Ron Ben-Israel
Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal… Ive decided that Im going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up. – Christopher McCandless
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Now I am not one of the most constant creatures alive myself, and am apt to run through the spectrum which has the blues at the bottom about once a week. – Byron Caldwell Smith (1849-1877), letter to Kate Stephens
