Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to think that the notoriously bad cooking of the English was an example to the contrary, and that the English cook the way they do because, through sheer technical deficiency, they had not been able to master the art of cooking. I have discovered to my stupefaction that the English cook that way because that is the way they like it.
Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to … - Waverley Root
Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to …
- Waverley Root
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best. - Waverley Root
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.
Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself. - Waverley Root
Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.
It is the destiny of mint to be crushed. - Waverley Root
It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.
Sweetly and subtly perfumed...so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who have to pick, ship, ha… - Waverley Root
Sweetly and subtly perfumed...so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who have to pick, ship, ha…
Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity. - Waverley Root
Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity.
The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day. - Waverley Root
The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased o… - Waverley Root
The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased o…
The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food. - Waverley Root
The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.
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