Enormous Quote by Thomas Cahill

A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a…

— Willa Cather

Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.

— Laura Esquivel

History is a Pandora's box. We've opened it now, we can't pretend stuff doesn't exist.

— Paterson Joseph

It's true that history seems denser than it really is.

— Tommy Lapid

History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions…

— Henry A. Kissinger

In the same way that I've no desire to live in earlier historical periods, I never touch historical recipes. Most historical cooking is detestable.

— David Starkey

History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no horsing around.…

— David McCullough

Almost every culture has its own variation on chicken soup, and rightly so - it's one of the most gratifying dishes on the face…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and…

— Henry Hampton

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

— Kate Mosse

History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.

— Subhash Kak

Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question received wisdom,…

— Ken Liu