Quotes by Cooking FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith. Ambrose Bierce baptism cooking long EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled. Ambrose Bierce cooking religious food HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging. Ambrose Bierce cooking food needs SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam. Ambrose Bierce cooking feelings food MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants. Ambrose Bierce cooking body food FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs Ambrose Bierce cooking food science EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,' said Brillat-Savarin, beginning an anecdote. 'What!' interrupted Rochebriant; 'eating dinner in a drawing-room?' 'I must beg you to observe, monsieur,' explained the great gastronome, 'that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before.' Ambrose Bierce drawing cooking food RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker. Ambrose Bierce cooking food bankers PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic. Ambrose Bierce portugal cooking food HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Ambrose Bierce definitions cooking food CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible. Ambrose Bierce cooking food lobster A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants. Ambrose Bierce pieces cooking food Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache. Ambrose Bierce cooking essence food TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy. Ambrose Bierce cooking pigs food TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally. Ambrose Bierce cooking strong food TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility. Ambrose Bierce passion cooking food The man you love cooking for you is good for you too. Ana Castillo cooking-and-love cooking men The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers. Anais Nin black cooking strong Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners. Andre Simon wine cooking food Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for. Andre Simon unselfish cooking art «1234567891011»