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“Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.”

Littles Situation Food Television Competition Vehicle Salad Leftovers Gelatin

Author:Peg Bracken

“From my table inside I watch the glamorous women outside who are lunching on Spa Cobb salads without blue cheese or dressing. The man with the bread basket wanders from table to table, lonesome as a cloud. When he comes to me his basket is full and perfectly arranged. He gives me a smile of sincere pleasure when I tell him I will take both the sourdough roll and the cheese stick.”

Men Giving Pleasure Watches Food He Man Give Me Blue Tables Cooking Sticks Clouds Bread Wander Culinary Sincere Cheese Dressings Glamorous Salad Baskets Lonesome Spas Blue Cheese

Author:Ann Patchett

“It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit down to them from time to time. It was largesse that made us all; we were not created to fast forever... Enter here, therefore, as a sovereign remedy for the narrowness of our minds and the stinginess of our souls.”

Needs Mind Made Soul Forever Food Cooking Fishes Meat Meals Culinary Remedy Cheese Sovereign Soup Dessert Salad Largesse Stinginess

Author:Robert Farrar Capon

“My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.”

Wonderful Food Tables Cooking Culinary Funeral Grandfather Potatoes My Grandfather Salad Buffets Deceased Replica Potato Salad

Author:Woody Allen

“It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.”

Ifs Two Enough Age Left Five Too Much Wise Food Lucky Cooking Potatoes Salad Potato Salad

Author:Laurie Colwin

“Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.”

Hours Half Too Much Food Huge Green Wine Vegetables Guests Dishes Salad

Author:Jeff Smith

“According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.”

Persons Wanted Four Food Cooking Oil Culinary Salt Salad Madmen Misers Vinegar Spendthrift Counsellors Spanish Proverb

Author:John Gerard

“I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.”

Knows Mother Certain Memories Food Taste Meat Carrie Salad Pancakes Tuna One More Day

Book:For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.”

Should Literature Food Becoming Eating Drinking Feminine Salad Champagne Lobster Food And Drink Eating Food Food And Eating Eating And Drinking Drinking Champagne Champagne Drinking

Book:The Sayings of Lord Byron

Source: The Sayings of Lord Byron

“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.”

“Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.”

Food Cooking Culinary Salad Irritating

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.”

Knows Problem Cases Food Cooking Oil Brilliant Culinary Salad Vinegar Cookery Oil And Vinegar

Author:Oscar Wilde

“A number of rare or newly experienced foods have been claimed to be aphrodisiacs. At one time this quality was even ascribed to the tomato. Reflect on that when you are next preparing the family salad.”

Has Beens Next Numbers Quality Food Cooking Culinary One Time Preparing Salad Tomatoes Aphrodisiac

Author:Jane Grigson

“Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad, but bread is king.”

Country Food Kings Tables Cooking Court Bread Meat Culinary Surround Vegetables Soup Salad

Author:Louis Bromfield

“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