The Gullet Quotes

“But the paradox is that what we are eating on a day-to-day basis and take for granted right now will be the ghosts that future scholars will chase: first it will become nostalgia, then it will become history, and then myth.”
― Clinton Palanca, The Gullet: Dispatches on Philippine Food

“The interactions take place horizontally rather than vertically, and go so far back that they resist the term of one having “influence upon” the other. Rather, it is best seen as a parallel evolution of distinct but highly interrelated culinary cultures.”
― Clinton Palanca, The Gullet: Dispatches on Philippine Food

“The invention of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star,” goes the famous quote from Brillat-Savarin.”
― Clinton Palanca, The Gullet: Dispatches on Philippine Food