Thursday, August 27, 2009

The Top Ten best lines about eating and drinking

Posted by Charles Ferruzza on Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:00 AM

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10) "I don't drink water. Fish fuck in it." -- W.C. Fields.

9) "A gourmet who thinks about calories is like a tart who looks at her watch." -- James Beard

8) "Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying." -- Fran Lebowitz

7) "I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee." -- Burt Lancaster

6) "One cannot think well, love well, or sleep well unless one has dined well." -- Virgina Woolf

5) "Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good." -- Alice May Brock

4) "He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God." -- Saadi

3) "Lettuce is divine, but I'm not sure it's really food." -- Diana Vreeland

2) "There are people in this world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." -- Gandhi

1) "I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead." -- Woody Allen

 

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The quote "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker" was originally made by literary wit Dorothy Parker, whose other really famous quote is "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses."

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Posted by Val Phelps on November 14, 2009 at 2:40 AM

Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table. - William Powell

The golden rule of reading a menu is, �If you can�t pronounce it, you can�t afford it.� - Frank Muir

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

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. - W. Somerset Maugham

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Posted by Realist on August 27, 2009 at 8:26 PM

Primary advice for a beginner cook: Stand facing the stove.
Irma Rombauer
author, The Joy of Cooking

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Posted by Kathy on August 27, 2009 at 3:54 PM

"I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." - Tom Waits

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Posted by ChetP on August 27, 2009 at 1:21 PM

"Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker." - Willy Wonka

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Posted by Scott on August 27, 2009 at 10:59 AM
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