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Grex Kitchen Item 231: Food quotes and stories
Entered by denise on Tue Jan 9 03:27:15 UTC 2007:

This item is for fun and/or interesting quotes about food or drink. As you
come across any good ones, please share!

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#1 of 3 by denise on Tue Jan 9 03:48:29 2007:

Here's one from a book in a series that I'm reading; the book is "In This
Mountain".  The quote is from a woman who loves to bake [especially cakes].
Words that are in *...* are actually in italics in the book:

        It was hard, very hard, when people couldn't-and, in today's world
        *wouldn't*-eat cake. When she was coming up, families *lived* from
        cake to cake. A cake was a special event, it meant something. Now
        a homemade, baked-from-scratch cake meant next to nothing. For one
        thing, most young people had never experienced such a thing. All
        they'd ever known was bought from a store and tasted like hamster
        shavingsd, or had been emptied from a box into a bowl, stirred with
        low-fat milk, and shoved into an oven that nearly blew a fuse from
        being turned on in the first place. Such a cake could never be
        *your* cake, no way, it would be Betty Crocker's or Duncan Hine's 
        cake, and the difference between yours and theirs was vast and
        unforgiveable.
        And look how people acted these days at the mere sight of a piece of
        cake. *Cake? Get it out of here! I'm on a diet! I don't want it in
        the house!*
        Worse yet was the inevitable decloration: *I never touch cake!*
        Never touch cake. Pathetic! The world was increasingly filled with
        such people, not to  mention the crowd that ate cake in secret,
        stuffing it in their faces when nobody was looking, and claiming
        to nourish themselves on a diet of boiled eggs and dry toast. She
        knew who they were.

        ...And take biscuits--biscuits had fallen in disgrace right along 
        with cake. Would anyone eat a biscuit anymore? No way, not on your
        life.  Too fattening! Too much cholesterol! All that white flour!
        All that shortning! On and on, 'til you could keel over and croak.
        She's been born in the wrong century...

Good ol' Esther! A fiesty baker at that. :-)

#2 of 3 by denise on Thu Aug 16 00:37:12 2007:

From a website:
On Stolen Lunches


Brian Hill recalled the time when he worked at a local radio station and
someone would  regularly raid the weekend provisions of one of the
anchors. So the next time the  weekend anchor made her popular tuna fish
sandwiches, she changed the recipe a  little, said Hill, who was an
editor at the station. "There was no tuna," said Hill, who is  now
director of public affairs for the Houston Zoo. "It was all Little
Friskies." And like  usual, the nicely wrapped cat food salad sandwiches
disappeared, so the anchor wrote  up the popular recipe - including her
secret ingredient - and posted it on the station's  bulletin board for
all to see. "I always thought that was the most beautiful thing," said 
Hill, who said that from that point on, food was safe in the linoleum
lounge. Source: 
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/sixel/4137785.html

#3 of 3 by denise on Mon Sep 10 23:38:37 2007:

Here are a few tea quotes:

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime. ~Sidney Smith

If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and 
beauty. ~ Japanese Proverb

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. ~ Henry Fielding, "Love
 in Several Masques"

Remember the tea kettle - it is always up to its neck in hot water, yet
it  still sings! ~ Author Unknown

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