I learned so much in Laos. I learned that fried silkworm larvae are delicious. I learned how to make ant-egg salad. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes ant delicious egg
People are so used to eating terrible pancakes, no matter how you mess up, they're going to be great. And if you make fresh orange juice, they'll be over the moon. Ruth Reichl eatfreshgreat Change image and share on social
You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know about life. Ruth Reichl criticdecentfood Change image and share on social
To me, cooking is man's natural activity. But I think writing is really hard. Certainly writing fiction is the hardest thing I've ever done. Ruth Reichl activitycookfiction Change image and share on social
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. Lewis Thomas antbeastbegin share on social
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.' Bill Cosby basketbrotherchild share on social
I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islands a few years ago, and we had all sorts of different mushrooms on brioche with pancetta on top, and it was delicious. I had it most days for lunch, so I thought, 'I'll do that when I get back,' and now it's in my cookbook, an absolute favourite. Mary Berry absoluteagoback share on social