If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that… - A. J. Liebling
A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that…
- A. J. Liebling
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior. - A. J. Liebling
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it. - A. J. Liebling
I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. - A. J. Liebling
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young. - A. J. Liebling
The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.
In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Isl… - A. J. Liebling
In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Isl…
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. - A. J. Liebling
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. - A. J. Liebling
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels. - A. J. Liebling
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
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