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It is amazing how serious kitchens are….A kitchen seems to be sort of garage for your emotions, a repair shop. I have, in kitchens permitted myself to pretend to be profound. It is in bedrooms that I am laughable. – John Leonard
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It’s not often that ELV has such a bad experience in a restaurant, he rushes to his computer to tell you about it.
Usually, the worse the meal, the more he feels compelled to take a day or two ruminating over his repulsion before writing of his repugnance.
My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation…A public banquet (dinner), if eaten with thought and care, is no more of a strain than a dinner at home. – Chauncey DePew (1834-1928)
Dining out is a vice. A dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. – Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave (1944)
Why should so vast a national expenditure be left entirely to chance? – Duncan Hines, Adventures in Good Eating (1936)