"Culinary art" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you find the juice express'd By culinary art, To draw the gravy off, were best, And let it stand apart. Then, lady, if you'd have a treat, Be sure you can't be wrong To put more butter to your meat, Nor let it ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... the shore of Big Clear Pond. The pitching of the tents is a lesson in architecture, the building of the camp-fire a victory over damp nature, and the supper of potatoes and bacon and fried trout a veritable triumph of culinary art. ...
— Little Rivers - A Book Of Essays In Profitable Idleness • Henry van Dyke
... the next man was worse—hygienic. While with this creature I read Poe for the first time, and I was singularly fascinated by some of his grotesques. I tried—it was an altogether new development, I believe, in culinary art—the Bizarre. I made some curious arrangements in pork and strawberries, with a sauce containing beer. Quite by accident I mentioned my design to him on the evening of the festival. All the Philistine was aroused in him. 'It will ruin my digestion.' 'My friend,' I said, ...
— Select Conversations with an Uncle • H. G. Wells
... that Goibniu had a reputation for magic, even among Christians. A spell for making butter, in an eighth century MS. preserved at S. Gall, appeals to his "science."[259] Curiously enough, Goibniu is also connected with the culinary art in myth, and, like Hephaistos, prepares the feast of the gods, while his ale preserves their immortality.[260] The elation produced by heady liquors caused them to be regarded as draughts of immortality, like Soma, Haoma, or nectar. ...
— The Religion of the Ancient Celts • J. A. MacCulloch |
