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It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to have expensive food on the plates before they can enter the dining room as

It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to have expensive food on the plates before they can enter the dining room as things of beauty in colour and texture. Food should be served with real care as to the colour and texture on the plates, as well as with imaginative taste. This is where artistic talent and aesthetic expression and fulfillment come in.

Edith Schaeffer
Real, Expression, Order
Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.

Edith Schaeffer
People, Perfection
Edith Schaeffer (1997). “What is a Family?”, p.41, Baker Books

Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being loved and cared for, the actual comfort of the beauty and flavour of food, the increase of blood sugar and physical well-being, help one to go on during the next hours better equipped to meet the problems (p. 124).

Edith Schaeffer
Spiritual, Emotional, Blood
Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

Edith Schaeffer
Beautiful, Writing, Eye
Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of ‘art’ (p. 213).

Edith Schaeffer
Beautiful, Art, Creativity

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