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“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

“The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.”

Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

“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

“This is not that, and that is certainly not this, and at the same time an oyster stew is not stewed, and although they are made of the same things and even cooked almost the same way, an oyster soup should never be called a stew, nor stew soup.”

Way Should Made Food Soup Oysters Stew

Book:Consider the Oyster

Source: Consider the Oyster

“I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.”

Giving Three Morning Food Give Me Cooking Clock Culinary Good Morning Stew Food And Eating Heartburn

Author:John Barrymore

“I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.”

Thinking Knows World Stills Stories Hands Emotion Brain Food Hunger Beloved Culinary Dishes Modest Stew Rarity

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.”

Knows Want Trying Hard Mystery Rocks Food Eating Fishes Humble East Locals France Meat Mexico Sincerely Provinces Mcdonalds Cafes Stew Want To Travel Kitchen Confidential Hard Rock

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“Soups challenge us, because an enticing flavorful stew can be as different from the thin watery beverage sometimes erroneously called soup as a genuine green turtle is from the mock turtle.”

Different Sometimes Challenges Food Green Genuine Soup Mock Turtles Stew Beverages Enticing

Author:Louis Pullig De Gouy

“What do you eat?” she asked. “Mulligan stew,” said Bob. “My friends and I collect scraps of food all day, and then we cook it up in a big pot and share it. It’s always different, but very tasty.” “Why is it called mulligan stew?” asked Stephen. “There was once a hobo named Mulligan,” said Bob. “He made the first mulligan stew.” “Was he a good cook?” asked Todd. “No, he was eaten by cannibals.”

School Food Stew Cook Hobo Mulligan

Book:Wayside School is Falling Down

Source: Wayside School is Falling Down