Best food & turkeys Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would be in living in the midst of good cheer, in the country of truffles, partridges, truffled turkeys, and so forth. "Alas!" replied with a sigh the sad gastronomer, "can one really live at all in a country where there is no fresh sea-fish?"”

Country Would Be Pleasure Sea Food Directors Fishes Contribution Midst Cheer Sigh Alas Turkeys Appointments Indirect Connoisseur Good Cheer Truffles

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle of all sorts of gourmands of every category, whilst their faces beam with delight and they themselves dance with pleasure.”

Stills Eye Faces Stars Pleasure Food Delight Reputation Categories Turkeys Beam Sparkle

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger.”

Science Food Turkeys Steak Hamburgers Hyenas Carrion Buzzards

Book:The New Dietetics, what to Eat and how: A Guide to Scientific Feeding in Health and Disease

Source: The New Dietetics, what to Eat and how: A Guide to Scientific Feeding in Health and Disease

“Someone is putting brandy in your bonbons, Grand Marnier in your breakfast jam, Kahlua in your ice cream, Scotch in your mustard and Wild Turkey in your cake.”

Food Cooking Ice Culinary Breakfast Cake Cream Ice Cream Turkeys Jam Scotch Mustard Brandy

Author:Marian Burros

“If the soup had been as warm as the wine; if the wine had been as old as the turkey; and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid, it would have been a swell dinner.”

Ifs Has Beens Food Wine Warm Dinner Breasts Soup Turkeys Maids

Author:Duncan Hines

“I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.”

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Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves.”

World Realizing Millions Modern Food Cooking Clean Culinary Turkeys Modern World Ovens

Book:Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

“Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.”

Giving Doe Use Food Cooking Humble Thanks Islands Culinary Sincere Turkeys Thanksgiving Day Plumber Sneer Hearty Fiji

Author:Mark Twain

“Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.”

“What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?”

Book:Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

Source: Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

“You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?”

Firsts Humans Done Might Parent Race Food Cooking Human Race Apples Culinary Ruined Turkeys

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.”

Food Cooking Culinary Turkeys Wraps Funny Thanksgiving Foils Thanksgiving Funny Leftovers Aluminum Funny Thanksgiving Day Thanksgiving Turkey Turkeys On Thanksgiving Aluminum Foil

Author:Nicole Hollander

“It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.”

“I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.”

“Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.”

World Made Food Cooking Culinary New World Turkeys Best Gift

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. In our house Thanksgiving was a time for sorrow.”

Mother House Food Sorrow Taste Cooking Cooks Culinary Turkeys Good Cook

Book:Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature

Source: Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature

“What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.”

May Food Cooking Culinary Chickens Ducks Turkeys Sauce Geese Hens Guinea Roast Chicken Gander

Author:Alice B. Toklas

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