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“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

“Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with... Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.”

Giving Food Taste Hundred Raises Cooking Bread Culinary This Day Soup Filling Sauce Spoons Pasta Stew Gravy Raise Up

Author:Robert Farrar Capon

“There were twelve dishes of lamb cooked in different rich sauces, with a monster bowl of strange oddments, which I imagine also belonged to the private life of a sheep, floating in rich gravy.”

Different Rich Imagine Food Strange Monsters Sheep Twelve Bowls Dishes Floating Private Life Lambs Sauce Gravy

Book:The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara

Source: The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara

“Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.”

Life Persons Has Beens Friendship Food Eternal Eternity Swear Gravy Eternal Friendship

Book:A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”

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Author:Erma Bombeck

“Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.”

Source: Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel

“It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.”

Ifs Wells May Done Asks Food Willing Cooking Library Settling Culinary Beef Well Done Gravy Roast Beef

Author:Marian Burros