Bill Buford Quotes

If it has a shelf life longer than you, don't eat it.

I love to bake! I have a huge sweet tooth, and I love to make things like zucchini muffins, you know, anything decadent like that. And I stand by the claim that chocolate can be good for you! I love having a good piece of dark chocolate, one that's 70 percent or more cacao.

I eat a lot of chocolate.

Chocolate is one of the world's most beloved discoveries, and when we need a quick boost of energy and endorphins, chocolate is the go-to treat.

The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'

Here's a bit of Discovery Channel for you - apples don't last forever. They can stay fresh for a long time, especially when refrigerated, but definitely not from December into the month of March.

When a raw food becomes processed food, it can be best valued, protected, stored, and safely delivered to customers.

The cleanest book on a dusty bookshelf is usually a dirty one.

The fact that in America bread lasts so long. You buy bread, and then it's bread forever - it's Forever Bread!

My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.

Nothing, not even an avocado pit, keeps guacamole green for too long once it's made.

My goal is to teach what chocolate is. I don't think my customers understand what it takes to make chocolates.

It's always been about shelf life. Long-term parking, not short-term. That's why I take the time that I do when I write.

We love chocolate.

Film, if properly cared for, will last almost 100 years, but digital will not.

Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.

You need chocolate with enough cocoa butter. If your chocolate is high-quality, with a good content of cocoa butter, the chocolate will melt inside and create layering. That's very important. Those chocolate morsels don't melt. So, for the best chocolate chip cookies, I use the chocolate we sell, which is a 60 percent cocoa.

There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last

Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.

... and holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table. It would be Ch, which isn't even taken.

I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!

It seems to me that the dedication of a library is an act of faith. To bring together the resources of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a nation must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. it must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.

When I was a kid, all I liked were books and chocolate.

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.