Food Quotes - Page 23

• She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Rose, Cooking, Tides

  Louis Kronenberger (1970). “The Cutting Edge”

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• She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

  Juvenal

  Oysters, Differences, Cooking

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• She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.

  Barbara Pym

  Wine, Simple, Garden

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• Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?

  Frank Bruni

  Cooking, Tissues, Culinary

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• So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.

  Auguste Escoffier

  Long, People, Cooking

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• Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.

  Will Rogers

  Guy, Cooking, Meals

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• Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks - a delicious kind of cake, at present scarce known in this city, except in genuine Dutch families.

  Washington Irving

  Apples, Pie, Cake

  Washington Irving (1854). “The Works”

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• Speaking of food, English cuisine has received a lot of unfair criticism over the years, but the truth is that it can be a very pleasant surprise to the connoisseur of severely overcooked livestock organs served in lukewarm puddles of congealed grease. England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

  Dave Barry

  School, Years, Cooking

  "Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need". Book by Dave Barry, 1991.

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• TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Passion, Cooking, Tables

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.223, University of Georgia Press

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• Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.

  Emmanuel des Essarts

  Giving, Cooking, Kidneys

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• Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry.

  John Keats

  Writing, Hands, Talking

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.96

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• TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Strong, Cooking, Sometimes

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.225, University of Georgia Press

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• Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said - Come, let us all go live at Paris: the French love good eating - they are all gourmands - we shall rank high.

  Laurence Sterne

  Thinking, Paris, Cooking

  Laurence Sterne (1999). “Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.497, Modern Library

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• Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

  Mark Twain

  Humble, Islands, Turkeys

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.

  Emmanuel des Essarts

  Cooking, Quality, Vines

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• The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.

  Bruce Jay Friedman

  Cooking, Culinary, Virtuous

  Bruce Jay Friedman (1978). “The Lonely Guy: And, The Slightly Older Guy”, p.33, Grove Press

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• The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.

  Emile Zola

  Smell, Cooking, Scent

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• The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

  Ben Bradlee

  Cooking, Culinary, Champagne

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• The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.

  Ogden Nash

  Loss, Eggs, People

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• The confection made of Cacao called Chocolate or Chocoletto which may be had in diverse places in London, at reasonable rates, is of wonderful efficacy for the procreation of children: for it not only vehemently incites to Venus, but causes conception in women . . . and besides that it preserves health, for it makes such as take it often to become fat and corpulent, fair and amiable.

  William H. Coles

  Children, Cooking, Chocolate

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• The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Yellow, White, Cooking

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• The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'

  Frederick Marryat

  America, Cooking, Devil

  Frederick Marryat (1839). “A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions”

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• The first of all considerations is that our meals shall be fun as well as fuel.

  Andre Simon

  Fun, Cooking, Meals

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• The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.

  Leo Rosten

  Years, Community, Cooking

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• The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.

  Redd Foxx

  Cooking, Meals, Culinary

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