Food Quotes by Diana Abu-Jaber

12 Food quotes by Diana Abu-Jaber

Diana Abu-Jaber’s 12 reflections blend personal insight with broader cultural notes, giving a modest yet meaningful window into how food shapes our lives.

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For me, almost always, the answer was cake.

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“Flour and yolk and cream are all coarse- of the earth. But sugar and air and vanilla are elements of the firmament.…

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I honestly never intended food to occupy so much of my creative work. Food-writing often seems about to plummet straight into sentimentality.…

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“For this cake, I want to mingle the womanly and masculine foods- sugars and meats in particular. The walls must come down.…

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The obsession with food filled my childhood - that's what happens when your parents are from a place or time where people…

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“On the cutting board there are two peanut butter and red currant jam sandwiches for Emerson and two Serrano ham, shaved cheddar,…

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“Marry, don't marry,' Auntie Aya says as we unfold layers of dough to make an apple strudel. Just don't have your babies…

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“On the top rack is a cooled and decorated seven-layered 'opera' cake. Her client- the Peruvian ambassador- had requested a "tropical" theme…

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Dad says that everyone invented baklava.” It occurs to me now to wonder what that means. Aunt Aya rolls her eyes. “Your…

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“But Stanley persisted in the kitchen, performing the small yet demanding apprentice's tasks she set for him- removing the skin from piles…

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“She thinks of Stanley's colored pencil drawings of theoretical businesses: a cafe, a bookshop, and, always, a grocery store. When she was…

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“Brian and Avis deliver their stacks and try to refuse dinner, but the waiters bring them glasses of burgundy, porcelain plates with…

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“...tasting a piece of bread that someone bought is like looking at that person, but tasting a piece of bread that they baked is…

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“The loneliness of the arab is a terrible thing; it is all consuming. It is already present like a little shadow under the heart…

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“She's been scouted by Ford and Elite- real New York agencies. Micah, the agent for Elite- a tall black guy in silver eyeliner- said…

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Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all the way…

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“The first time Avis knelt on a chair and stirred eggs into flour to make a vanilla cake, she had an inkling of how…

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“You want to protect you children, don't you? You let them out of your body but you never let them all the way out.”

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“..a phantasm, a pink-palmed jinn, a ghost from one of the drowned cities.”

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