Best animal & cooking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Animals are murdered to produce meat; vegetables are torn up, peeled, and chopped; most of what we eat is treated with fire; and chewing is designed remorselessly to finish what killing and cooking began. People naturally prefer that none of this should happen to them. Behind every rule of table etiquette lurks the determination of each person present to be a diner, not a dish.”

Source: The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners

“And then you bit onto them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal that the animal didn't know it had got. Dibbler had worked out that with enough fried onions and mustard people would eat anything.”

People Knows Enough Use Bits Animal Cutting Food Cooking Culinary Throat Discworld Onions Mustard

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on miserable hardscrabble earth was actually superior to the magnificent creamy cheeses of the noblest dairy animals bred in the richest green valleys of the earth.”

People Earth Animal Food Creatures Eating Green Cooking Superiors Miserable Eras Culinary Valleys Sensible Cheese Magnificent Bizarre Goats Dairy

Author:Russell Baker

“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

“I adore pigs, and I love eating them and cooking them, and I love using the whole animal.”

Whole Animal Eating Cooking Pigs Adore

Author:April Bloomfield

“Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.”

Thinking Animal Food Drink Please Cooking Culinary Finest Dessert Supper Crackers Cocoa Animal Crackers

Book:Chimneysmoke

Source: Chimneysmoke

“I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.”

Trying Doe Animal Accepting Style Essence Cooking Expected Cooks Stomach Swimming Quantity Disguise Turkeys Rabbits Sauce Mushrooms Ham Good Food Peppers Hares Calves Salty Perfectly Good

Author:Voltaire

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