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“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

“England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.”

Food England Cooking Warm Islands Streams Culinary Swimming Beef Gravy

Book:Stories

Source: Stories

“Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and light and still warm from the frying. Not too sugary.”

Stills Light Food Cooking Warm Bags Culinary Bites Lucy Donuts Frying

Author:Robert Crais

“Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.”

Knows Humans Kind Has Beens Real Used Certain Existence Quality Steps Doors Childhood Food Late Beats Cooking Warm Smell Fats Smoking Autumn Culinary Throat Spoons Autumn Days

Author:Kathryn Hughes

“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

“The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Might Secret Food Cooking Warm Be Good Convinced Frozen Drudgery

Author:James Beard

“I cannot go any further without mentioning my favourite biscuit of all time, now sadly, tragically, extinct. The oaty, crumbly, demerara notes of the long-forgotten Abbey Crunch will remain forever on my lips. I loved the biscuit as much as anything I have ever eaten, and often, in moments of solitude, I still think about its warm, buttery, sugary self.”

Thinking Long Stills Self Moments Forever Food Solitude Notes Forgotten Lips Warm All Time Favourite Biscuits Crunch Abbey

Author:Nigel Slater

“Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.”

Two Seems Culture Food Cooking Warm Smell Dust Characteristics Gas Culinary Athens Garlic Tweed

Book:Labels: A Mediterranean Journal

Source: Labels: A Mediterranean Journal

“To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.”

Needs Feels Night Food Cold Safe Warm Wet Soup

Author:Laurie Colwin

“Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.”

Giving Matter Hurt Food Careful Warm Ferrets Slabs

Author:Alton Brown