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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

quips

"Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity." ~ Voltaire

"Why garlic? Garlic don't need a reason" ~ Alton Brown

"Potatoes, those earthy yet heavenly, those bits of mother nature's love, which tastes just as great with a little simple salt, or loaded with half of the refrigerator, which wish so much to be cooked and savoured that they will happily accept whatever vessel you may have.

Yes, I do love potatoes ;)"

"One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating." ~ Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story

"
If God had intended us to follow recipes,
He wouldn't have given us grandmothers."
~Linda Henley

"There is no love sincerer than the love of food." ~George Bernard Shaw, "The Revolutionist's Handbook," Man and Superman

"He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside." ~Mark Twain

"Cutting stalks at noontime. Perspiration drips to the earth. Know you that your bowl of rice each grain from hardship comes?" ~Chang Chan-Pao

"Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts!" ~James Beard

"If you ate pasta and antipasto, would you still be hungry?"

"Strawberries are the angels of the earth, innocent and sweet with green leafy wings reaching heavenward." ~Jasmine Heiler

"The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor." ~Chinese Proverb

"You know how I feel about tacos. It's the only food shaped like a smile. A beef smile." ~Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and Michael Pennie, My Name is Earl

"A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something Brussels sprouts never do." ~P.J. O'Rourke

"Oil and potatoes both grow underground so french fries may have eventually produced themselves, had they not been invented." ~A.J. Esther

"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it." ~Aldous Huxley

"There is no sight on earth more appealing than the sight of a woman making dinner for someone she loves." ~Thomas Wolfe

"Don't forget that the flavors of wine and cheese depend upon the types of infecting microörganisms." ~Martin H. Fischer

"There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eaten under a tree." ~Elizabeth Russell

"Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt." ~Judith Olney

"Chocolate is ground from the beans of happiness." ~Alexis F. Hope

"Mothers are those wonderful people who can get up in the morning before the smell of coffee"

"Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised." ~Star Trek: Voyager

"Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee." ~Stephanie Piro

"Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat." ~Alex Levine

"What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others." ~Lucretius. 95-55 B. C.

"To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content."
~Confucius

"Coarse rice for food, water to drink, and the bended arm for a pillow - happiness may be enjoyed even in these."
~Confucius

"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you want and let the food fight it out inside."
~Mark Twain

"Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food."
~Hippocrates

"Do not cease to drink beer, to eat, to intoxicate thyself, to make love and to celebrate the good days." ~Egyptian proverb

When speaking, use a grain of sugar; when listening, use a grain of salt.

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