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Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl
And, scarce suspected, animate the whole.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 11, “Recipe for Salads”, p. 426
I do not like broccoli and I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.
George H. W. Bush1924–2018News conference (22 March 1990)
- Comedy
- Presidency
The trouble with modern cooking is that the mood it induces in the cook is one of skin-of-the-teeth efficiency, all briskness and little pleasure.
Nigella Lawsonborn 1960How to be a Domestic Goddess (2000), quoted by Hadley Freeman in “Nigella Lawson: ‘I didn’t think I’d be a mended person, but I am’”, The Guardian (10 October 2020).
Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don’t deserve to eat garlic.
Anthony Bourdain1956–2018Kitchen Confidential (2000)
- Comedy
America’s most dangerous export was never nuclear weapons or Jerry Lewis⁠—or even Baywatch reruns. It was, is, and probably always will be our fast-food outlets.
Anthony Bourdain1956–2018The Nasty Bits (2006)
- America
Cooking should be a way of life⁠—an extension of oneself⁠—never a job.
Marco Pierre Whiteborn 1961Marco Pierre White in Hell’s Kitchen (2008)
- Work
Most cooks when they are young tend to overwork their food to hide their lack of confidence and appreciation for Mother Nature. In time they learn that she is the true artist⁠—we’re just the cooks.
Marco Pierre Whiteborn 1961Marco Pierre White in Hell’s Kitchen (2008)
- Nature
“Please, sir, I want some more.”
Charles Dickens1812–1870Oliver Twist (1838), Chapter IIIn context
No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIIn context
- Fear
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 Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part II, Episode 4In context
Isn’t it funny
How a bear likes honey?
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
I wonder why he does?
A. A. Milne1882–1956Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter IIn context
- Animals
Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o’clock in the morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs; and when Rabbit said, “Honey or condensed milk with your bread?” he was so excited that he said, “Both,” and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, “But don’t bother about the bread, please.”
A. A. Milne1882–1956Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter IIIn context
- Comedy
There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger’s origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.
Kenneth Grahame1859–1932The Wind in the Willows (1908), Chapter IXIn context
The best sauce in the world is hunger
Miguel de Cervantes1547–1616Don Quixote (1605–1615), Part II, Chapter VIn context
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), Higher LawsIn context
- Animals