Florence Fabricant quote: Peanut butter - the pâté of childhood.

“Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.”

Food Green Cooking Giants Culinary Casting Santa Santa Claus Slender Jolly Physique Connoisseur Pandas

Author:Craig Claiborne

“PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.”

Names Food Cooking Agents Culinary Pie Reaper Indigestion

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“Pork - no animal is more used for nourishment and none more indispensable in the kitchen; employed either fresh or salt, all is useful, even to its bristles and its blood; it is the superfluous riches of the farmer, and helps to pay the rent of the cottager.”

Helping Used Animal Pay Blood Food Cooking Riches Kitchen Culinary Farmers Salt Indispensable Employed Nourishment Superfluous Pork

Book:The Modern Housewife: Or, Ménagère. Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts, for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, and Those for the Nursery and Sick Room; and Minute Directions for Family Management in All Its Branches. Illustrated with Engravings Including the Modern Housewife's Unique Kitchen, and Magic Stove

Source: The Modern Housewife: Or, Ménagère. Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts, for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, and Those for the Nursery and Sick Room; and Minute Directions for Family Management in All Its Branches. Illustrated with Engravings Including the Modern Housewife's Unique Kitchen, and Magic Stove

“PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.”

Food Cooking Species Culinary Feathers Indigenous Geese Portugal Portuguese Garlic

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.”

May Known Food Speech Cooking Prepared Holes Culinary Recipes Rabbits Bankers Calves Toads Welsh

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.”

Needs Food Cooking Culinary Recipes

Author:Eli Wallach

“I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.”

People Ifs Giving Found Sides Black White Pieces Bread Shirts Both Sides Starving Aisle Shirt Off

Author:Al Green

“Reward is a happy customer - and an empty plate.”

Food Empty Cooking Rewards Customers Culinary Plates

Author:Jacques Torres

“Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.”

Food Essence Cooking Culinary Stomach Ache

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.”

Firsts Language Food Foundation Cooking Culinary Grammar Sauce Cookery

Book:The Modern Housewife: Or, Ménagère. Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts, for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, and Those for the Nursery and Sick Room; and Minute Directions for Family Management in All Its Branches. Illustrated with Engravings Including the Modern Housewife's Unique Kitchen, and Magic Stove

Source: The Modern Housewife: Or, Ménagère. Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts, for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, and Those for the Nursery and Sick Room; and Minute Directions for Family Management in All Its Branches. Illustrated with Engravings Including the Modern Housewife's Unique Kitchen, and Magic Stove

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