ARTICLES, FOOD FACTS, AND FOOD QUOTES

“Whatever else you do today, find somebody to be nice to.” –Ludlow Porch

1.  Hostess Twinkies were invented in 1931 by James Dewar, manager of Continental Bakeries’ Chicago factory. He envisioned the product as a way of using the company’s thousands of shortcake pans which were otherwise employed only during the strawberry season. Originally called Little Shortcake Fingers, they were renamed Twinkie Fingers, and finally “Twinkies.”

2.  Don’t give your dog chocolate. It affects his heart and nervous system. It contains theobromine that is toxic to dogs in sufficient quantities.

3.   Sometimes Frozen Fruits And Vegetables Are More Nutritious Than Fresh! The longer fruits or vegetables sit around waiting to be sold or eaten, the more nutrients they lose. But fruits and vegetables grown for freezing are usually frozen right after they’re picked. Therefore, they have less time to lose their nutrients.

4.  Domesticated turkeys cannot fly.  Wild turkeys can fly for short distances at speeds up to 55 miles per hour.  Wild turkeys can run up to 25 m.p.h.

5.  More than 45 million turkeys are cooked and eaten in the U.S. at Thanksgiving!

6.  Animal Crackers, the animal shaped cookie treats were introduced in 1902 with a string handle as a Christmas novelty so they could be hung from the Christmas tree.

 7. Watermelon is an excellent source of vitamin A and C. It has more lycopene than tomatoes and by weight is the most consumed melon in the U.S.The first recorded watermelon harvest was 5,000 years ago in Egypt

Some foods I really like and recommend to everyone!

SORGHUM MOLASSES – All us true southerners love sorghum. You will usually find a big jar in our cupboards. There is nothing any better than hot homemade buttermilk biscuits with butter and sorghum. It is a great source of potassium and has a deep, rich flavor. Old timers used to think sorghum was medicinal and take a spoonful a day to stay healthy! It is used to cook with and makes melt in your mouth cookies and cakes. There is nothing like sorghum on pancakes and waffles. If you don’t know about this wonderful southern product, rush right out and buy a jar. It will make your mouth water!

HONEY – I love honey. I totally believe it has medicinal powers and is one of the healthiest foods.  I try to eat honey at least 3 times a week. Honey can be used without any side effects for any kind of diseases.Today’s science says that even though honey is sweet, if taken in the right dosage as a medicine, it does not harm diabetic patients. I cook with honey all the time and use it to replace sugar in many recipes.  You can read a great article on honey by clicking here.

SPICES – I use spices in almost everything I cook. Besides just loving the taste they give to recipes, I think they are good for you, too.  My sister has used cinnamon for years for her cholesterol.  Cinnamon is supposed to be good for diabetes, too. I am blessed to be in good health and maybe these foods and spices have something to do with that.  You can read about the benefits of spices here.

Check out this great poem: The Gingerbread Man

28.  I had a dream last night, I was eating a ten pound marshmallow. I woke up this morning and the pillow was gone. –Tommy Cooper

29.  When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, the real purpose of striving towards perfection becomes clear; to make people happy. That’s what cooking is all about. – Thomas Keller

30.  All sorrows are less with bread – Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

31.   ‎”Chocolate is the answer. Who cares what the questions is.” —Author Unknown

32.  Nothing is quite as intoxicating as the smell of bacon frying in the morning, save perhaps the smell of coffee brewing.”- James Beard

33.  “It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him.” Robertson Davies, Canadian author (1913-1995)

34. The four food groups: Fast, Frozen, Instant, and Chocolate.

35. Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out, but I can usually shut her up with cookies……

36.  The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not – Mark Twain

37.  I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation – Madam Benoit

38.   ‎”The most indispensable ingredient of all good home cooking: love, for those you are cooking for.” – Sophia Loren

39.  I’d give up chocolate but I’m no quitter! – Author Unknown

40.  A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. – Author Unknown

41.  I figured if I was going to make the world a better place, I’d do it with cookies –Ana Pascal.

42.  Don’t wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty! —Lora Brody

43.  Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold –Judith Olney

44.  One of life’s mysteries is how a two-pound box of chocolates can make a person gain five pounds! — Author Unknown

45.  Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. ~Doug Larson

46.  “Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts” —James Beard

47.  “My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future” – Pearl Bailey

48. Strawberries are the angels of the earth, innocent and sweet with green leafy wings reaching heavenward.  ~Terri Guillemets

49.  “Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot weather crossed paths” –John Egerton

50.  “Dirty hands, iced tea, garden fragrances thick in the air and a blanket of color before me, who could ask for more?” –Beverly Adams

51.   Southerners have a strong sense of regional heritage. We are proud of our turnip greens, cornbread, sweet tea, rural pasts and Southern drawls. We are card-carrying Southerners. -Judy Yeager

52.  “He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.”
-Henry David Thoreau

53.  Southern cooking warms the heart and soothes the soul. –Judy Parker Yeager, The Southern Lady

54. Southerners know you can’t be considered a serious Southern cook if you don’t know how to make peach cobbler.  – Trisha Yearwood

55. A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. Anne Bronte

56.  You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food. -Paul Prudhomme

57. “The hot biscuit runs a poor second to cornbread, but is considered of higher social caste. We abrogate and deprecate cornbread when we have guests, but we should consider ourselves deficient in hospitality if we served a company meal without hot biscuits.”  Majorie Kinnan Rawlings, ‘Cross Creek’ (1942)

58. “Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime.” Andre Simon (1877-1970)

59. Nothing is quite as intoxicating as the smell of bacon frying in the morning, save perhaps the smell of coffee brewing.” James Beard (1903-1985

60. Simply to wake up just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs. And, again I cry, how rarely it happens! But when it does happen — then what a moment, what a morning, what a delight!” J. B. Priestley, British author (1894-1984)

61.  “Laughter is brightest, in the place where the food is.” ~~Irish Proverb

62.  “All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast” – John Gunther

63.  “Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandonment or not at all”  ~~Harriet Van Horne

64.  “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well” ~~Virginia Woolf

65.  Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously. ~~Vanna Bonta

66.  Coffee makes it possible to get out of bed. Chocolate makes it worthwhile. ~~ Author Unknown

67. Number one, I absolutely love making chocolate chip cookies. I mean, it’s fun. It’s exciting. Beyond the fact that I love making them, I love eating them. Debbi Fields

68. Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”~ Edith Sitwell

69.  “Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty…they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.” ~ Martin Buxbaum

70.  Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them!

With time, women gain weight because we accumulate so much information and wisdom in our heads that when there is no more room, it distributes out to the rest of our bodies. So, we aren’t heavy, we are enormously cultured, educated and happy. Beginning today, when i look at my butt in the mirror I will think, Good Grief, look how smart I am, I must be a genius

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