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“Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.”

Littles Stills Left Food Cold Hot Dinner Impression Guests Soup Tricky Hostesses Dinner Guests Hot Soup

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Although the frankfurter originated in Frankfurt, Germany, we have long since made it our own, a twin pillar of democracy along with Mom's apple pie. In fact, now that Mom's apple pie comes frozen and baked by somebody who isn't Mom, the hot dog stands alone. What it symbolizes remains pure, even if what it contains does not.”

Ifs Long Doe Made Facts Democracy Dog Food Mom Pure Hot Remains Cooking Made It Germany Apples Culinary Twins Pie Frozen Pillars Stand Alone Hot Dog Apple Pie Frankfurt

Author:William Zinsser

“Any part of the piggy Is quite all right with me Ham from Westphalia, ham from Parma Ham as lean as the Dalai Lama Ham from Virginia, ham from York, Trotters Sausages, hot roast pork. Crackling crisp for my teeth to grind on Bacon with or without the rind on Though humanitarian I'm not a vegetarian. I'm neither crank nor prude nor prig And though it may sound infra dig Any part of the darling pig Is perfectly fine with me.”

May Sound Food Fine Hot Cooking Humanitarian Teeth Culinary Vegetarian Pigs Darling Grind Virginia Pork Ham Sausage Crisps Lama Crank Dalai Piggy Prudes

Author:Noel Coward

“But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.”

Felt Food Hot Cooking Culinary Soup Seasoning Tamales Hot Soup

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues.”

Giving May Two Choices Water Food Give Me Hot Cooking Add Tongue Tea Culinary Pot Milk Baths Toasts Butlers Nightingales Caviar Truffles

Book:Craig Claiborne's New York Times Food Encyclopedia

Source: Craig Claiborne's New York Times Food Encyclopedia

“I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber, indigestible pseudo-sausages that millions of Americans now eat, and they leaked the same flabby, puerile mustard. Their single point of difference lay in the fact that their covers were honest German Wecke made of wheat-flour baked to crispiness, and not the soggy rolls prevailing today, of ground acorns, plaster-of-Paris, flecks of bath-sponge, and atmospheric air all compact.”

“No dish changes quite so much from season to season as soup. Summer's soups come chilled, in pastel colors strewn with herbs. If hot they are sheer insubstantial broths afloat with seafood. In winter they turn steaming and thick to serve with slabs of rustic, crusty bread.”

Ifs Turns Food Color Summer Seasons Hot Cooking Winter Bread Culinary Thick Dishes Sheer Soup Herbs Seafood Rustic Chilled Pastel Slabs

Author:Florence Fabricant

“Borscht is more than a soup, it's a weather vane. When my family says they want hot borscht I know winter is coming, and when they want cold borscht I know how far can spring be behind?”

Knows Want Behinds Know How Food Cold Spring My Family Hot Winter Weather Soup Winter Is Coming Borscht

Author:Gertrude Berg

“Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too long whilst it cools. Soup should be brought to table only moderately warm.”

People Should Long Waiting Food Hot Tables Warm Soup Vulgar Hot Soup

Author:Charlie Day

“Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.”

“I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.”

Source: Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography

“In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal, on the south by an enormous ham, on the east by a monumental pile of butter, and on the west by an enormous dish of artichokes, with a hot sauce.”

Church Food Cold Hot Tables Rose West South East Enormous Vegetables Quarters Dishes Centre Sauce Ham Pastries Artichokes Hot Sauce

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.”

Knows Food Fine Hot Depth Comforting Aunt Stairs Virginia Jars Trout Sparkling Cellars Pickles Hot Days

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.”

Needs Humans Heart Littles Important Night Sound Brain Morning Food Hot Cooking Familiar Kitchen Culinary Warmth Wet Human Heart Comforting Sock

Author:E. B. White

“What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing! It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles.”

Ifs World Kind Long Hard Facts Food Hot Cooking Add Certainty Mathematical Settling Thick Soup Puzzles Comforting Flour Sure Thing Crosswords Hard Days

Author:Nora Ephron

“Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.”

People Inspirational Should Wanted Success Desire Dog Military Food Should Have Hot Alcohol Beer Champagne Beer Drinking Drinking Beer Hot Dog Funny Beer Caviar Great Beer

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Liza poured thick batter from a pitcher onto a soapstone griddle. The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanoes formed and erupted on them until they were ready to be turned. A cheerful brown, they were, with tracings of darker brown. And the kitchen was full of the good sweet smell of them.”

Littles Food Ready Sweet Hot Rose Smell Kitchen Brown Cake Thick Cheerful Pitcher Volcanoes Tracing

Author:John Steinbeck

“Leave the eggs to bathe for 15 minutes in the hot water like a sexy Swedish chick in a natural mineral sauna.”

Water Natural Minutes Food Hot Cooking Sexy Eggs Chicks Minerals Swedish Hot Water Saunas

Book:Cookin' with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price

Source: Cookin' with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price

“Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.”

Food Hot Smell Senses Mysterious Scent Fiery Lulls Drowsy Truffles

Book:The Fitz-Boodle papers, and other sketches

Source: The Fitz-Boodle papers, and other sketches

“Maybe you know why a child can reject a hot dog with mustard served on a soft bun at home, yet eat six of them two hours later at fifty cents each.”

Knows Children Two Home Hours Dog Food Six Hot Fifty Rejects Cents Hot Dog Mustard Buns

Book:If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?

Source: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?