Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half. – Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Category: Food For Thought
ELV’s Thought for the Day
Pork is the real hero of the feast. Like a passionate youth it puts on different disguises on different occasions. But even clothed in the most elaborate attire, its originality and genius is always revealed — whether we search it out under the drapes of a blood sausage, or in the sailor’s jacket of liverwurst, under the rough mantle of country sausage, or in the mantilla of a frankfurter. – Nikita Vselolzhsky
ELV’s Thought(s) for the Day
Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals. – Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784
Persons living entirely on vegetables are seldom of plump and succulent habit. – William Cullen, 1710-1790
Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold and calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favour beards…wheeze, squeak, drawl and maunder… – J. B. Morton, 1893-1979