Croissant in the City

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“Shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sautee it. There's, um, shrimp kebabs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo, pan fried, deep fried, stir fried. There's pineapple shrimp and lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich… That's, that's about it.”

~From the movie Forrest Gump

"Doubtless God could have made a better berry than the strawberry, but doubtless God never did."

~William Allen Butler

"Home is in my heart – in all the places and people I have left behind. It's in the food that I cook and share with others, and in the cities I will come to know."

~Kim Sunee

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"there are many of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often is it hard not to agree that we are becoming culinary nitwits, dependent upon fast foods and mass kitchens and megavitamins for our basically rotten nourishment."

~M.F.K. Fisher

"The explanation is that I consider cooking to be an act of love. I do
enjoy the craft of cooking, of course, otherwise I would not have done
so much of it, but that is a very small part of the pleasure it brings
me. What I love is to cook for someone. To put a freshly made meal on
the table, even if it is something very plain and simple as long as it
tastes good and is not a ready-to-eat something bought at the store, is
a sincere expression of affection, it is an act of binding intimacy
directed at whoever has a welcome place in your heart. And while other
passions in your life may at some point begin to bank their fires, the
shared happiness of good homemade food can last as long as we do."

~Marcella Hazan

"You may feel that you have eaten too much…But this pastry is like feathers – it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!"

~M.F.K. Fisher

"It's all about the balance."

~Mireille Guiliano