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[fyfas]

Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.

- L. M. Boyd

[Charcuterer]

From the Simpsons

Foodie #1: "We discovered Korean barbecue in this town."
Lisa: "Uh, before the Koreans?"
Foodie #2: "Oh, sure, they cook it, but they don't get it."

[et alors]

http://www.condenast...s_i8562908_.htm

"It's broccoli, dear."--"I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it." - New Yorker Cartoon

[et alors]

Dug out my copy of Jacque and Julia cooking at home to get this quote right "Not everything I do with my roast chicken is necessarily scientific. ... For example, I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the over. Why? Because I think the chicken likes it -- and more important, I like to give it."

And yes, I have the What Would Julia Do bumper sticker.

On a personal note, my dad (who gave me the sticker) sent me this email regrading Gary Taube's latest.

"You'd almost think this guy was making a career of defending my diet.

Salt, We Misjudged You "

love ya dad

[LynnFoodies]

This one is my favorite:

"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are" - Old quote by The Physiology of Taste

2nd:

Good food ends with good talk - Northern Exposure

[Smithy]

"Birds, except when broiled and in the society of a cold bottle, bored him stiff."
--P. G. Wodehouse

"The French think a man can face the day on a cup of coffee and a piece of bread. That explains a lot about their politics."
--Robert Heinlein (from memory - may not be quite verbatim)

[parrinoj]

When cutting fish, show the fish NO fear. - Linton Hopkins

[Heartsurgeon]

“I believe that if I ever had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.” James Beard

"cold pizza and warm beer...the breakfast of champions" Heartsurgeon (from the college years)

' "Just one little mint, monsieur. It is so thin. What harm could one little mint do?" Monty Python's 'The Meaning of Life.

Edited by Heartsurgeon, 12 July 2012 - 09:08 PM.

[David Ross]

"The aroma attracts kibitzhers......"
(from a 1956 barbecue cookbook)

[liuzhou]

Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine

James Joyce - Ulysses

[nickrey]

Seeing the champagne quotes above brought to mind a martini quote from Dorothy Parker.

"I like to have a martini,
two at the very most,
after three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host."

eta. Ah, I see it is a repeat. It is worthy of it though.

Edited by nickrey, 21 July 2012 - 10:21 PM.

[Pierogi]

Continuing on the martini theme (and a fine theme it is), there's my signature line....

"Let's slip out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini" by the everso cool Robert Benchley.

And of course, there's the unattributed "one Martini, two Martini, three Martini, floor".

I try to avoid acting out the latter......

[Broken English]

My favourite alcohol related line is "I'm seeing double and feeling single".

[liuzhou]

My favourite alcohol related line is "I'm seeing double and feeling single".

Love it!

[judiu]

My favourite alcohol related line is "I'm seeing double and feeling single".

Love it!

And people say country music is all "play it backwards and your truck will run again, your wife'll come back, your boss will respect you and tne dog will come back to life"!

[rod rock]

"Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable." - Ina Garten
So true!

[Brown Hornet]

Surprised it hasn't come up yet since it's such a classic movie line:

"Leave the gun, take the canoli."

[sailorsam]

"Grizzly Bear; an animal sometimes eaten by man, and vice versa."
Waverly Root