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Food Quote #7

“All normal people love meat.  If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, “Yo Goober!  Where’s the meat?  I’m trying to impress people here Lisa.  You don’t win friends with salad.” — Homer Simpson

Food Quote #6

The pig is “an encyclopedic animal, a meal on legs.” – Grimod de La Reynière

Food Quote #5

“Barbecue is a guy thing, a throwback to the spit-roasted woolly mammoth perhaps. It tends to be written about today (and debated in endless detail) like a sporting event, which in fact it has become: thousands of tiny local competitions are rapidly giving way to several major barbecue leagues, with their own playoffs, world

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Food Quote #4

“In the Barbecue is any four footed animal — be it mouse or mastodon — whose dressed carcass is roasted whole…. at its best it is a fat steer, and must be eaten within an hour of when it is cooked. For if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes

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Food Quote #3

“Grilling, broiling, barbecuing – whatever you want to call it – is an art, not just a matter of building a pyre and throwing on a piece of meat as a sacrifice to the gods of the stomach.” – James Beard, ‘Beard on Food’ (1974)

Food Quote #2

“I’m a man. Men cook outside. Women make the three-bean salad. That’s the way it is and always has been, since the first settlers of Levittown. That outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit has long been beyond question. If this wasn’t firmly understood, you’d never get grown men to put on those aprons with

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Food Quote #1

“The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a new star” – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin