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“Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter.”

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James Russell Lowell was an American poet, born on February 22, 1819, and died on August 12, 1891. His poetry is known for its profound social insights and admiration for nature. more

“Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to think that the notoriously bad cooking of the English was an example to the contrary, and that the English cook the way they do because, through sheer technical deficiency, they had not been able to master the art of cooking. I have discovered to my stupefaction that the English cook that way because that is the way they like it.”

Thinking Way Want Art Country Enough Seems Able Used Example Food Masters Deserve Cooking Contrary Cooks Culinary Sheer Deficiency Cuisine Appreciative

Author:Waverley Root

“The difference between good and bad cookery can scarcely be more strikingly shown than in the manner in which sauces are prepared and served. If well made....they prove that both skill and taste have been exerted in its arrangements. When coarsely or carelessly prepared....they greatly discredit the cook.”

Ifs Wells Has Beens Made Differences Taste Skills Prove Cooking Prepared Cooks Arrangements Good And Bad Sauce Discredit Cookery

Author:Eliza Acton

“Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.”

Lasts Cooking Cooks Encounters Ivory Woodpeckers Cajuns

Book:Blue Highways: A Journey Into America

Source: Blue Highways: A Journey Into America

“Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.”

Humans Reason Food Development Cooking Cooks Kitchen Culinary Human Development Delayed

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined.”

Art Progress Mankind Fine Civilization Cooking Complicated Triumph Rude Simplest Succession Civilisation Refined Fine Arts Barbarism Cookery Materiality

Book:Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition

Source: Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition

“Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that kind of food, it is served in ample portions.”

Kind Made Cooking Honestly Traditional Portions Bourgeois Bistro

Author:David Liederman

“Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.”

Writing Wells Book Cooking Good Book Cookery

Author:Samuel Johnson

“A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of the bookmaker and etcher, will be required to compose the cookbook par excellence.”

Quality Masters Skills Cooking Excellence Painter Combination Cooks Scholar Cookbook Sportsman Bookmakers

Author:George Ellwanger

“Bouillabaisse, this golden soup, this incomparable golden soup which embodies and concentrates all the aromas of our shores and which permeates, like an ecstasy, the stomachs of astonished gastronomes. Bouillabaisse is one of those classic dishes whose glory has encircled the world, and the miracle consists of this: there are as many bouillabaisses as there are good chefs or cordon bleus. Each brings to his own version his special touch.”

World Special Food Glory Miracle Cooking Versions Golden Classic Ecstasy Shore Dishes Chef Soup Incomparable Aroma

Author:Curnonsky

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