Food Quote #7
September 6, 2008This quote is for parents who are worried their one year old isn’t eating enough so it’s kind of food-related!
If a child continued to grow at the same rate as in the first year, he would be 29 metres long and weigh 200 tonnes by the age of ten.
ELIZABETH MORSE My Child won’t eat
Perhaps I’ll stop insisting that Harri eats everything I lovingly cook for him!
I’m reading a book called ‘The Glassblower of Murano’ by Marino Fiorata which is excellent. Anyway, you’re probably wondering what that has to do with food, its just that it mentioned the Venetian saying “non piu di cinque”. To quote from the book – “Never more than five. Venetians say that you should not use more ingredients than you have fingers of one hand”. I’m not sure if that’s just to do with sauces or the meal overall? Have you heard of such a saying? I tried to keep to it with my pasta dish tonight but got to 8! garlic, mushroom, baby leaf greens, peas, rosemary, cambozola (+a bit of milk) and pasta (+paremsan sprinkling to finish). It was still delicious even if it was more than five!