Quotes by Food Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table. Amanda Bennett airplane sea food Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. Ambrose Bierce food men science Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers. Ambrose Bierce madness cooking food DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced. Ambrose Bierce paris cooking food Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. Ambrose Bierce cooking food religion Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. Ambrose Bierce wise food men Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook. Ambrose Bierce substance cooking food Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. Ambrose Bierce cooking bread food Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. Ambrose Bierce perspective religious food 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 PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig. Ambrose Bierce animal pigs food SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven. Ambrose Bierce ninety-nine food civilization WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread "per capita" of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable. Ambrose Bierce cereal food people FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs Ambrose Bierce cooking food science Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women. Ambrose Bierce bottles wine food 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 «1234567891011»