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“English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.”

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Jay Rayner is a renowned British journalist known for his contributions to the fields of food criticism and cooking. Born on September 14, 1966, he has been writing food reviews since the 1990s and has served as a column writer for several prominent media outlets. Rayner is celebrated for his sharp palate and profound understanding of food, with his work extending beyond reviews to include cookbooks and television shows. more

“For each glass, liberally large, the basic ingredients begin with ice cubes in a shaker and three or four drops of Angostura bitters on the ice cubes. Add several twisted lemon peels to the shaker, then a bottle-top of dry vermouth, a bottle-top of Scotch, and multiply the resultant liquid content by five with gin, preferably Bombay Sapphire. Add more gin if you think it is too bland... I have been told, but have no personal proof that it is true, that three of these taken in the course of an evening make it possible to fly from New York to Paris without an airplane.”

“For many a pasty have you robbed of blood, And many a Jack of Dover have you sold That has been heated twice and twice grown cold. From many a pilgrim have you had Christ's curse, For of your parsley they yet fare the worse, Which they have eaten with your stubble goose; For in your shop full many a fly is loose.”

Has Beens Christ Blood Food Cold Cooking Curse Shops Culinary Geese Pilgrim Dover Pasties Parsley

Author:Geoffrey Chaucer

“From my table inside I watch the glamorous women outside who are lunching on Spa Cobb salads without blue cheese or dressing. The man with the bread basket wanders from table to table, lonesome as a cloud. When he comes to me his basket is full and perfectly arranged. He gives me a smile of sincere pleasure when I tell him I will take both the sourdough roll and the cheese stick.”

Men Giving Pleasure Watches Food He Man Give Me Blue Tables Cooking Sticks Clouds Bread Wander Culinary Sincere Cheese Dressings Glamorous Salad Baskets Lonesome Spas Blue Cheese

Author:Ann Patchett

“Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.”

Way Giving Littles Four Food Demand Cooking Cooks Pounds Eggs Culinary More Time Facilitate Concealing Frying Carp

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith.”

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

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