April 2011
7 posts
“A bottle of white, a bottle of red, perhaps a bottle of rosé instead?”
– Billy Joesl. “Scenes From an Italian Restaurant.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxBjKa8KcW0
“Have one each, my dears,” said cook in her comfortable voice. “Yer ma won’t know.”
Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose and Laura were licking their fingers with that absorbed inward look that only comes from whipped cream.
- Katherine Mansfield. “The Garden Party.”
March 2011
4 posts
“I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast.”
– Bette Davis as Jane Hudson, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.
Del Monte selling packaged bananas... →
February 2011
8 posts
They had lunched, as was their wont, on sugar, starches, oils and butter-fats. Usually they ate sandwiches of spongy new white bread greased with butter and mayonnaise; they ate thick wedges of cake lying wet beneath ice cream and whipped cream and melted chocolate gritty with nuts. As alternates, they ate patties, sweating beads of inferior oil, containing bits of bland meat bogged in pale,...
“I’ve never had a problem ordering from ‘American Sub Restaurant Very...”
– Liz Lemon
“Ooooh, piece of cake. Nice, big piece of chocolate cake. Devil’s food....”
– Blanche Devereaux.
January 2011
8 posts
“Portland, Oregon and sloe gin fizz
If that ain’t love then tell me what...”
– Loretta Lynn. “Portland Oregon”.
World's Longest Food Chain →
Hillary Clinton Birthday (which was 3 months ago)... →
That looks disgusting
Sometimes now I listen to Louis while I have my favorite dessert of vanilla ice cream and sloe gin. I pour the red liquid over the white mound, watching it glisten and the vapor rising as Louis bends that military instrument into a beam of lyrical sound.
-Ralph Ellison. Invisible Man.
December 2010
7 posts
“The cold though, doesn’t it split the cheechakos from the sourdoughs?”
– Sarah Palin
WatchFood Network Foodgasms
November 2010
7 posts
October 2010
6 posts
“I mean, it’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost? Ten Dollars?”
– Lucille Bluth.
“When I was younger, the idea of not going out on a Saturday night seemed like...”
– Nigella Lawson
September 2010
17 posts
Ming Makes Cupcakes →