Food Toasts



To the alchemy that turns groceries into meals!

To this meal. In the words of Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, "The creator forcing man to take in food for living invites him through appetite and rewards him with pleasure."

May we always have more occasion for the cook than for the doctor.

To quote Mark Twain, "To eat is human, to digest divine."

To Mom's cooking - may my wife never find out how bad it really was.

To soup - may it be seen and not heard.

To eat, to drink, and to be merry. -Ecclesiastes 8:15

To the chef-because, as the famous epicure Anthelme Brillat-Savarin once said, "Discovering a new dish adds more to the happiness of mankind than discovering a new planet."

As George Bernard Shaw said, "There is no love sincerer than the love of food."


resting knife and fork etiquette

Our resting utensils etiquette section covers the rules (american and continental) for resting your utensils when taking a break from eating, when you are finished eating, and when you are passing food [...]

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