John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.

I don't cook, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

Cooking is not effortless. To get a recipe that feels effortless is really hard.

I get cross with foodies who think hospital food should be Michelin-star and caterers can fall into this trap.

I love getting in the kitchen because I don't get the chance when I'm staying in hotels and on the road.

A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest.

When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.

Certain people just go home and veg out, certain people go travel the world and certain people are like, "Screw this, I'm going to work the entire time."

Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.

I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.

People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots. Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead.

When I am at home, I never go near the synagogue unless, say, there is a bar or bat mitzvah involving the children of friends. But when I am traveling, in a country where Jewish life is scarce or endangered, I often make a visit to the shul.

Lots of travel, away from home.

In 1996, the possibility of going to New York came up. From then on, I started searching for opportunities on the international market and the plane became my home.

Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with sorrow and marvel at its journey, which was tenderness for his own journey. In India almost nobody would be able to afford this rice, and you had to travel around the world to be able to eat such things where they were cheap enough that you could gobble them down without being rich; and when you got home to the place where they grew, you couldn't afford them anymore.

A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

I feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home.

Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way.

The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.

We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!

I love to cook. In fact, at this exact moment, I am trying something new: I am cooking a whole chicken in my crockpot, which I've never done before. I browned it with garlic powder, salt and pepper, and I put a bunch of celery and onions - which I'll have to hide from the children because they claim to hate onions - and I'm going to make homemade mashed cream potatoes. I always, before I leave for work in the morning, have supper cooking. That way, when I come home and they come home from school, there's all kinds of good smells in the house.

When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I fear lest my life will lose some of its homeliness. If these fields and streams and woods, the phenomena of nature here, and the simple occupations of the inhabitants should cease to interest and inspire me, no culture or wealth would atone for the loss.