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“But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.”

Giving Mean Food England Cooking Culinary Beans

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.”

Food England Cooking Warm Islands Streams Culinary Swimming Beef Gravy

Book:Stories

Source: Stories

“Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England.”

America Grows Half Sky Food Constitution England Murder Cooking Mere Climate Nervous France Culinary Temperament Brighter Delicacy Owing Cookbook Receipts

Book:American Woman's Home

Source: American Woman's Home

“Speaking of food, English cuisine has received a lot of unfair criticism over the years, but the truth is that it can be a very pleasant surprise to the connoisseur of severely overcooked livestock organs served in lukewarm puddles of congealed grease. England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.”

“The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with it before putting the salad in gives sufficient flavor. It rather depends whether you are going to eat the bowl or the salad.”

Giving Depends England Cooking Treated Sufficient Superstitions Bowls Flavor Salad Grotesque Garlic Prudishness

Author:Elizabeth David

“For years - especially in England where I come from - cooking was a subservient job. When I told my Dad I was going to be a cook, he wouldn't talk to me for two years. Even though it was associated with my military service, he thought cooking was beneath me.”

Years Two Jobs Military Dad England Cooking My Dad Cooks Two Years Talk To Me Subservient Military Service

Author:Robert Irvine

“On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.”

People Food England Tables Cooking Manners Culinary Continents Good Manners Good Food Table Manners

Author:George Mikes

“Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.”

People Given Support Food Horse England Cooking Culinary Grain Scotland Oats

Author:Samuel Johnson

“The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and warble while chewing pressed beef smeared with diabolical mustard. Nobody can exult aloud while ungluing from his teeth a quivering tapioca pudding.”

England Cooking Average Teeth Hotel Englishmen Insulting Beam Beef Chewing Pudding Mustard Diabolical Bleakness

Author:Karel Capek