Michael Symon Quotes
Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.
Symon, Michael, and Michael Ruhlman. Michael Symon's Live to Cook: Recipes and Techniques to Rock Your Kitchen. Clarkson Potter, 2009, p. 11.
This quotation illustrates a unique aspect about the FDR presidency. It was more open than any previous and most subsequent. Today, some enterprising reporter might find out that the President did not care for the food he was getting for breakfast and lunch and changes were being made. This would be an exclusive and then be echoed by the media. But Mrs. Roosevelt, not only let this type of thing “all hang out” but literally published the story herself. Although few White Houses have done this, it gave the Roosevelt White House one advantage. Since they were the first to report most stories, they could frame the issue before someone else—perhaps hostile could. And no one did this better than Eleanor Roosevelt. Mrs. Nesbitt was the White House Chef, only since she was a woman she was called the “White House Cook”.
Michael D. Symon is an American chef, restaurateur, television personality, and author. He is of Greek, Sicilian, and Eastern European descent. He is seen regularly on Food Network on shows such as Iron Chef America, Burgers, Brew and 'Que, Food Feuds, and The Best Thing I Ever Ate, as well as Cook Like an Iron Chef on the Cooking Channel and The Chew on ABC. He has also made numerous contributions to periodicals such as Bon Appétit, Esquire, Food Arts, Gourmet, Saveur and O, The Oprah Magazine.
