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November 22, 2007

Deep Thought Thanksgiving Thursday

Here it is, as promised:

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November 1, 2007

Deep Thought Thursdays?

Dottie posted this comment under Woodberry Kitchen just now:

Um, Elizabeth, just curious...what happened to "Deep Thought Thursday"s?

An excellent question. ...

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September 20, 2007

Deep Thought Thursday

Having wine with lunch every day could get to be a habit.

(Photo of the night sky in Rome by me)

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September 13, 2007

Deep Thought Thursday

After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps. ~Miss Piggy

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September 6, 2007

Deep Thought Thursday

"Food responds to our soul's dream as to our stomach's appetite."
Joseph Delteil (1894-1978) French writer

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August 30, 2007

Deep Thought Thursday

I've been on a diet for two weeks, and all I've lost is two weeks. -- Totie Fields

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August 23, 2007

Deep Thought Thursday

(Photo courtesy of Jimmy Westlake, Colorado Mountain College)

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. --Carl Sagan

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August 16, 2007

Deep Thought Thursday

When Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder traveled to Japan during the Korean War, or so the story goes, the immigration officials wouldn't let him in. They changed their minds when he wrote this poem on one of the forms:

Making a cup of tea,
I stop the war.

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August 9, 2007

Deep Thought Thursday

Were a cook to cook a fly, he would save the breast for himself. -- Polish proverb

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August 2, 2007

Deep Thought Thursday

Here's what Buddhist monk and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh has to say about mindful eating:

"Some of us, while looking at a piece of carrot, can see the whole cosmos in it, can see the sunshine in it, can see the earth in it. It has come from the whole cosmos for our nourishment.

You may like to smile to it before you put it in your mouth. ...

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