The Quotable Cook (Quotable)

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Summary: Quotalicious Feast
Review: Everyone who loves to cook or just loves to eat should own at least two copies of Quotable Cook.....only because, someone is bound to steal your copy when you are not looking or are in the kitchen, cooking. It is the best culinary read I have had in a long time! Not since I read Kitchen, have I enjoyed a book quite so much.

When your own copy arrives (Yes, we saw you drooling over that copy in the bookstore!), you will want to hide it so you can have it all to yourself for at least an hour. When my husband fell asleep on the couch (after eating dinner), I snuck away to the bedroom to lounge all snuggled up under the down comforter. Finally, I had an hour all to myself...just me and a sumptuous collection of decadent tidbits.

Upon opening the first page, I realized the quotes were organized in a pleasing fashion. An Invitation to Dine, The Guest List, The Menu, Food, Wisdom and Politics were served up in a very appetizing way. The real secret is that you are about to dine on words, words and more words. Each dripping with wit and creativity. Some are so amusing, you might catch yourself laughing out loud. Rodney Dangerfield's quote is just about the funniest quote I have ever read.

I had to do a double take on something Julia Child said, and when I read "Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted mostly. -Robert Louis Stevenson...I started to get a bit hungry and honestly thought about making a grilled cheese sandwich. Some quotes started to make me a bit nostalgic and others made me contemplate life and how food centers us, comforts us or may even enlighten us. It is amazing how a quote about food can sometimes shed light on other areas of life to the extent of making you start collecting these quotes religiously! I did find quite a few quotes I had already discovered, but never have found them all in one book!

The quaint size of this volume is similar to your favorite novel. It is also as intriguing and once I started to read one quote, I was baited into reading another and another, until I finally had read the last quote and had to climb back out of bed to write this review. I would have happily stayed in bed if I had magically found a second volume.

My first review hardly did this book justice and since I had only read a few cooking quotes, how was I to know the depths of this book?

I do have to disagree with Moliere though, who said: "I live on good soup, not on fine words." To that I say...more words please! I agreed with everything Emeril Lagasse says and loved finding quotes by Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, Henry David Thoreau, Adelle Davis, Lord Byron, Saki, Confucius and Mark Twain.

If you have an hour, these quotes you will devour! The Quotable Cook is the most digestible serving of quotes ever published. When do we have the pleasure of dining on a second book? I am already starving!

Here is one quote I would love to see in the second book:

People give food meaning. It's easy to trivialize, because food is everywhere. But love of food is love of life. 'Barbara Haber, the curator of books at the Radcliffe Institute's Schlesinger Library. They house one of the largest culinary collections.

Rating:
Summary: For cooks who are quote lovers!
Review: If you want to find out what everyone is saying...from world leaders to comedians and everyone in-between, you will want to mentally devour all these delicous food quotes.

The perfect gift for the cook in your life! Here are two of my own favorite food quotes.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food. -George Bernard Shaw

I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them  I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race. -Donald Robert Perry Marquis, American Journalist 

Enjoy the feast!