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Food for Thought

Food for Thought

 Pul-e-Kumri, Afghanistan

  Food is our common ground, a universal experience. 
- James Beard


Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the
single most significant trademarks of a culture.

- Mark Kurlansky

Calcutta, India

Tibet

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water,
is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight…”
M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating

Bakery run by widows, Kabul, Afghanistan

All sorrows are less with bread.

- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

Mauritania

If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars  and all the heavens.
- Robert Browning

Croatia

Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the
court that surrounds the king.
– Louis Bromfield

Afghanistan

Istanbul, Turkey

Food to a large extent is what holds a society together and
eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.
– Peter Farb and George Armelagos

Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating

Rajasthan, India

Kabul, Afghanistan

 Los Angeles, California, USA

Date Seller, Yemen

Burma

What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
– Lucretius, Roman Poet and Philosopher

Honduras

The table is a place of communion for life’s large and small events.
Art Smith, Master Chef

Peru

Vietnam

Refugee Family, Sri Lanka

It’s the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.
– Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky
 
Cambodia

India

If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world.
- J.R.R. Tolkien

Monsoon Waters, Indonesia

Lebanon

Burma

Mumbai, India


The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

- E.M. Forster

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1 Comment So Far...

  1. Jahanara says:

    I too feel the same way about food, it is our culture, our joy and our life itself, amazing photos, spoke a universal language. Thank you. Enjoyed

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