A Literary Culinary Journal
Hunger is the best sauce in the world. / La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.–Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Spanish poet, playwright and novelist whose most famous work Don Quixote or Don Quijote de la Mancha is considered to be the first novel.
Click here to listen to Placido Domingo singing Man of La Mancha.
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Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.–Alice May Brock
Alice May Brock was the inspiration for Arlo Gutherie’s album Alice’s Restaurant. She was a painter, designer and owner of Alice’s Restaurant, formerly known as the Back Room Restaurant in Stockbridge, Massachusetts in the U.S.
Front of cookbook from Alice's Restaurant, Alice May Brock on cover. Photo courtesy of Aquarium Drunkard.
To read more about Alice and her cookbook, click here. To listen to Guthrie’s song Alice’s Restaurant, click here.
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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.–Katherine Hepburn, American actress and winner of four Academy Awards, perhaps best known for the film The African Queen where she played opposite Humphrey Bogart.
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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.–Brendan Francis Behan, Irish author (1923-1964) who among other works, wrote the plays The Quare Fellow (1954) and The Hostage (1958)
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And this is good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod…–John Collins Bossidy
John Collins Bossidy, American poet (1860 – 1928) and Boston Brahmin. Part of a toast given at Holy Cross College alumni dinner in 1910.
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While we’re in the mood —
Cold jelly and custard!
Pease pudding and saveloy!
What next is the question?
Rich gentlemen have it, boys —
In-di-gestion!
Lionel Bart
Lyrics from British musical Oliver!, by Lionel Bart, based on the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
Click here to listen.
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“…in a well regulated kitchen nothing is ever wasted, but with careful preparation even the ‘rough ends’ of a beef steak may be made into a wholesome, tender and appetizing dish; that ‘stale bread’ may be used in the most delicious ‘desserts’ and ‘farcies,’ and ‘left-over’ food from the day before need not be thrown in the trash-box, but may be made into an endless variety of wholesome and nutritious dishes.”
From The Picayune’s Creole Cook Book (originally published in 1901) – a collection of nearly 800 recipes for Creole cooking from the publishers of New Orleans The Times- Picayune.
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Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot weather crossed paths.–John Egerton, American journalist and authority on Southern Food as well as the history of the American South.
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Oranges and lemons,
Say the bells of St. Clement’s.
You owe me five farthings,
Say the bells of St. Martin’s.
When will you pay me?
Say the bells of Old Bailey.
When I grow rich,
Say the bells of Shoreditch.
A traditional English nursery rhyme and singing game that refers to church bells around London.
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I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than badly cooked dinners and untidy ways.–Mrs. Isabella Beeton
Isabella Beeton was a Victorian-era writer who died prematurely at 28 years of age, but not before having four children and writing an 1112-page essential guide for women on how to run a Victorian household with 900 recipes and advice on fashion, industrialism, childcare, religion and how to manage servants.
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Meet Jonell Galloway, a freelance writer and editor specialized in French cuisine. 
