Quotes by Judith Jones

“Money continues to flow to public schools whether kids are learning or not. They have a monopoly. Theres no accountability. Theres no incentive for them to change.”

“She wrote in wonderful longhand. We helped shape it a little. She had a natural gift, a sense of recall and immediacy when she wrote about the pleasures of cooking and hunting for wild things.”

“Recalling the pleasures of growing and gathering foods and preparing them with care, of relishing the changing seasons ... was her way of preserving an important part of American life and sharing its rewards with others.”

“She lives on every time I taste fried chicken or in little memories of how she listened to the sound of a cake baking in the oven. So shes with me all the time. Thats a great gift.”

“They allow educators to craft programs to meet the needs of an underserved group, so they dont directly compete.”

“We need the voice right there in the kitchen with us, telling us which ingredients to choose, carefully describing a technique, and pointing out the little details that make all the difference.”

Other creatures receive food simply as fodder. But we take the raw materials of the earth and work with them—touch them, manipulate them, taste them, glory in their heady smells and colors, and then, through a bit of alchemy, transform them into delicious creations.