The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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.
- 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. - 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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
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.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. - A. J. Liebling
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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