Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Cooking

• The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Food, Men, Vegetables

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.34, Penguin

• There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Food, Perfect, Cooking

• Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Food, Eating Good

  1844 Essays: Second Series,'Nature'.

• The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Garden, Division Of Labor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.393, Penguin

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