“When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we’re rained out.”
Tommy Lasorda (Dodgers baseball team manager)
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“You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.”
Yogi Berra, American baseball player (1925)
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“It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it; and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied; and it is all one.”
M. F. K. Fisher, ‘The Art of Eating’
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“I strongly believe that culinary love is not about having a French Passport, but about what you feel.”
Albert Roux
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“Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can’t believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I’m still hungry.”
Mike Kalin
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“The best food in the world is all the better – and foods less good are considerably helped – by being served attractively and in interesting containers.”
Dorothy Draper, ‘Entertaining is Fun’ (1941)
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“In the 20th century, the French managed to get a death on the myth that they produce the world’s best food. The hype has been carefully orchestrated, and despite the fact that the most popular food in the last quarter has undoubtedly been Italian, the French have managed to maintain that mental grip.”
Clarissa Dickson Wright, ‘Food’ (1999)
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“Figs are restorative, and the best food that can be taken by those who are brought low by long sickness…professed wrestlers and champions were in times past fed with figs.”
Pliny, Roman naturalist (A.D. 23-79)
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“Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food — not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother’s milk singing to your bloodstream.”
Dorothy Allison (1949–)
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“A gourmet knows that the best part is not always the expensive part, and he will find that part, and then he will share it. A gourmet should want to share.”
Mark Kurlansky, ‘Choice Cuts’ (2002)
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“The correct order of beverages is starting with the most temperate and ending with the most heady.”
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826)
‘The Physiology of Taste’
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“Potable, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine.”
Ambrose Bierce, American writer (1842-1914)
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“About the only birds in New England worth cooking, are the pigeon and partridge….Any one who kills a robin to eat, ought to have it hung round his neck as the albatross was around the ‘Ancient Mariner.’”
Sarah Josepha Hale, ‘The Good Housekeeper’ (1839)
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“What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.”
Emile Zola, French writer (1840-1902)
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“A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.”
Philip W. Haberman, Jr. (Vogue)
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“There was an Old Man of the North, Who fell into a basin of broth; But a laudable cook, fished him out with a hook, Which saved that Old Man of the North.”
Edward Lear, English artist, writer; known for his ‘literary nonsense’ & limericks (1812-1888)
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“That famish’d people must be slowly nurst,
And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.”
Lord Byron (1788-1824) ‘Don Juan’