Cook's Quotation Book : A Literary Feast

by Maria Polushkin Robbins; Maria Polushkin Robbins

• ISBN13: 9780880015738
• ISBN10: 088001573X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Few subjects have fascinated the great minds of history, literature, and of course gastronomy, more than the preparation and enjoyment of food. In this delectable cornucopia of quotations, Maria Polushkin Robbins proves once and for all that food is more than mere sustenance - it's inspiration. A motley group of wits and other opinionated personalities, including Ernest Hemingway, Nora Ephron, Robert Frost, Queen Victoria, Julia Child, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Baudelaire, James Joyce, Lewis Carroll, Bette Davis, and Vladimir Nabokov, all reveal their honest thoughts on one of life's most elementary pleasures. From "Airline Food" to "Zakuski", you can browse through the alphabetically arranged subjects for insights from food experts, food lovers, fellow cooks, and social commentators of every persuasion. Illustrated with charming line drawings, this collection will delight all who create and partake of gourmet comestibles or just plain fare.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi	(2)
Preface	xiii
A Matter of Taste	1	(3)
Airline Food	4	(1)
Appetite	5	(2)
Beer, Ale, and Porter	7	(1)
Berries	8	(2)
Bowl of Red	10	(2)
Bread and Butter	12	(5)
Breakfast	17	(5)
Carnivorous Fare	22	(4)
Champagne	26	(4)
Cheese	30	(1)
Chic Food	31	(2)
Chicken and Other Birds	33	(2)
The Cocktail Party	35	(1)
Coffee	36	(3)
Comfort and Consolation	39	(2)
Company for Dinner	41	(2)
Compulsive Behavior	43	(1)
Condiments, Herbs, and Spices	43	(1)
Consider the Oyster	44	(3)
Cooks and the Art of Cooking	47	(10)
Country Life	57	(1)
Cucumber	57	(1)
Curry	58	(1)
Danger Lurks	59	(1)
Digestion and Indigestion	60	(3)
Dinners and the Art of Dining	63	(4)
Eating Outdoors	67	(3)
Eggs	70	(3)
Feasts and Celebrations	73	(3)
Food and Love	76	(2)
Food and Memory	78	(5)
Fruit	83	(2)
Garlic	85	(2)
Gluttony	87	(2)
Gourmets, Gourmands, and Gastronomes	89	(2)
Hard Drink, Booze, and Liquor	91	(6)
Home Cooking	97	(5)
Hospitality	102	(2)
Hunger	104	(3)
I Hate It	107	(3)
In Darkest America	110	(2)
It's Good for You	112	(5)
The Joys of Drinking Wine	117	(10)
Junk Food	127	(1)
Just Follow the Recipe	128	(4)
Kitchens	132	(4)
Last Words	136	(1)
Leftovers	137	(1)
Luxuries	138	(2)
Melons	140	(2)
Murder in the Kitchen	142	(1)
Mushrooms	143	(4)
National Traits	147	(4)
Necessities	151	(1)
Nostalgia and Tradition	152	(2)
Nouvelle Cuisine	154	(2)
Old Food	156	(1)
The Olive	157	(2)
On Fasting, Slimming, and Diet	159	(2)
Onions	161	(3)
The Pleasures of Eating	164	(6)
Political Food	170	(2)
Praising the Pig	172	(2)
Preserving the Bounty	174	(3)
Quiche	177	(1)
Restaurants	178	(5)
Salads	183	(2)
Salt	185	(2)
Sandwiches	187	(2)
The Savour of Burnt Offerings	189	(2)
Seafood	191	(3)
Signs and Portents	194	(1)
Soup	195	(5)
The Sweet Things in Life	200	(7)
Table Manners	207	(4)
Taking Tea	211	(6)
Truffles	217	(1)
Upstairs, Downstairs	218	(3)
Vegetables	221	(6)
Vegetarians	227	(3)
Water, Water	230	(1)
What's for Lunch?	231	(2)
When We Were Young	233	(1)
Writing and Reading About Food	234	(3)
X-Rated Food	237	(2)
Xanadu	239	(2)
You Are What You Eat	241	(2)
Zakuski	243	(2)
Index of Authors	245