I'd rather have a good food - lots and lots of different varieties of good foods - than search for something perfect.
Kadang-kadang dengungan membaca tentang orang lain makan berasal dari sensasi voyeuristik melihat bagaimana separuh lainnya hidup: daun emas dan truffle atau - dalam kasus pesta Trimalchio di Petronius '' Satyricon '- dormice dan madu.
If we are going to change our diets, we first have to relearn the art of eating, which is a question of psychology as much as nutrition. We have to find a way to want to eat what's good for us.
I appreciate recipes that tell you what can be changed and what must remain fixed. 'The Zuni Cafe Cookbook' by the late Judy Rodgers is superb at this.
Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey.
Protein, we keep being told, is the vital nutrient that will give us a boost. It will burn fat, build muscle, reduce tiredness and kill our hunger pangs. Maybe if we shake enough protein powder into our daily smoothie, we will actually morph into Gwyneth Paltrow.
When we consume vastly more protein than we need, our kidneys struggle to process it, resulting in protein in the urine. Too much protein from meat may also contribute to kidney stones.
The saddest utensil I've come across is an 'anti-loneliness ramen bowl,' which holds your iPhone to keep you company as you slurp your solitary bowl of noodles. But the iPhone cannot return your gaze or reassure you that you didn't squeeze too much lime into the soup, though maybe a dinner-conversation app is only a matter of time.
In 2009, it was forecast that the number of single-person households would increase by two million in 10 years, suggesting that social isolation will only get worse.
One of the strange things about imaginary food is that it allows us to take pleasure in reading about things that we would never want to eat in real life.
Saya lebih suka memiliki makanan enak - banyak dan banyak variasi makanan enak - daripada mencari sesuatu yang sempurna.
Learning to cook in the 1990s, I thought 'proper olives' meant black. The benchmark was Kalamata from Greece: purple-black with an almost mushroomy depth of flavour. Other fine examples were tiny Coquilles from Nice and plump round Tanches from Nyons.
Kelompok yang benar-benar dapat memperoleh manfaat dari lebih banyak protein bukanlah kelompok yang cocok untuk gym-goers muda tetapi orang-orang yang lebih tua, yang tampaknya memiliki risiko defisiensi protein yang jauh lebih besar.
Saat seseorang melihat kita makan, kita merasa terekspos. Kita mungkin juga menaruh kecurigaan bahwa orang yang menatap ingin mencuri makanan dari piring kita. Tabu, bagaimanapun, sudah lama berdiri.
I like quinoa. I like gingerbread. I feel they should be kept separate. I'm not in favor of this thing of making kind of raw, vegan chocolate cake and saying it's as good as chocolate cake. I mean, just eat cake and be done with it. And then have a separate meal of quinoa.
The more people get advised to eat vegetables, the less it seems they wish to eat them. And it is quite a natural response. So I've said that the main way that we get to like food is through being exposed to them, but there's a second condition. We have to be exposed to them without feeling any sense of coercion.
A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.
In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss.