“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
–– Virginia Woolf
“I live on good soup, not on fine words.”
—Moliere
“Ruling a large kingdom, is like cooking a small fish – handle gently and never overdo it.”
— Lao-tse
“”A glass of good wine is a gracious creature.”
— Sir Walter Scott
…”Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and file gumbo” – lyrics from the ballad sung by Hank Williams Sr.
“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
“Whereas God sends good meat, the Devil sends cooks.” — E. Smith, ‘The Compleat Housewife”
Vinny: “What’s this over here?” Lou Walker as the grits’ cook: “You never heard of grits?” Vinny: “Sure, sure I heard of grits, I just actually never seen a grit before.” —Quote from the movie – My Cousin Vinny
“Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum.” —Bernard De Voto (1897-1955) American writer and critic
“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine.”
—St. Thomas Aquinas
“Forget love… I’d rather fall in chocolate!”
—Unknown
“Beautiful soup! Who would not give all else for two penny’s worth of beautiful soup?” — From “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll
“The proof of the pudding is in the eating.”
Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author. (1547-1616) ‘Don Quixote de la Mancha’
“My salad days, when I was green in judgment, cold in blood.”
— Spoken by Cleopatra in William Shakespeare’s “Anthony and Cleopatra”
