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“And through the hall there walked to and fro A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same, Whose name was Appetite; he did bestow Both guestes and meate, whenever in they came, And knew them how to order without blame.”

Order Names Food Blame Cooking Culinary Halls Appetite Jolly Yeoman

Book:Spenser. Book ii of The faery queene, ed. by G.W. Kitchin

Source: Spenser. Book ii of The faery queene, ed. by G.W. Kitchin

“History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king's bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly.”

Knows Way Humans Names Speak Fields Food Kings Cooking Celebrate Folly Thrive Culinary Scorn Battlefields Wheat Human Folly

Author:Jean-Henri Fabre

“I forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin.”

Girl Names Forget Food Cooking Wine Culinary

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!”

Humans Hate Names Food Calling Hatred I Hate Cooking Bitter Culinary Appetite Cheat Pretentious Humbug Lentils

Author:George Gissing

“PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.”

Names Food Cooking Agents Culinary Pie Reaper Indigestion

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.”

Ifs Giving Believe Reason Might Names I Believe Food Tradition Familiar Glorious Native Ireland Cheese Stew Welsh Taverns Old English

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those libels on civilized cookery, called DUMPLINGS! One might about as well eat, with the hope of digesting, a brick from the ruins of Babylon, as one of the hard, heavy masses of boiled dough which usually pass under this name.”

Wells May Hard Might Wanted Names Food Mass Heavy Bread Ruins Civilized Soup Bricks Short Time Dough Crackers Libel Cookery Babylon Dumplings

Book:Early American Cookery:

Source: Early American Cookery:

“How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.”

People Names Food Color Cooking God Love Culinary Godly French Love Eggplant

Author:Jeff Smith

“As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.”

“In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess.”

Looks Mean Bigs Turns Names Food Wind Chickens Dishes Spain Attempting Dictionary Sandwiches Salad Eels

Author:Dave Barry

“Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a seven-month-old getting a pat down. [Imitates a security officer.] "Check the diapers. They're full."”

Looks Humor Funny Names Security Food Months Computer Picks Humorous Seven Checks Officers Definite Airports Airline Diapers Racial Profiling Air Travel Seven Months Airport Security

Author:Robin Williams