The BBQ Grail » Quotes

Food Quote #7

Larry — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:01:13 +0000

“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

Larry — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:01:04 +0000

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

Food Quote #5

Larry — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:01:51 +0000

“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 series – and six-figure purses.” – Molly O’Neill, ‘American Food Writing’ (2007)

Food Quote #4

Larry — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:01:37 +0000

“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 like Cinderella’s silks, and it becomes cold baked beef — staler in the chill dawn then illicit love.” – William Allen White (1868-1944)

Food Quote #3

Larry — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:01:53 +0000

“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

Larry — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:12:26 +0000

“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 pictures of dancing wienies and things on the front…” – William Geist

Food Quote #1

Larry — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:58:43 +0000

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