Hi Rita,
That's a great idea. I did it for my family in the early 90s and last updated it in 96.
I used a quote as an introduction for each section. A few aren't food related, but were submitted by family members.
Here you go.
INTRODUCTION
“If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.”
Tom Jaine (b. 1943)
British editor of The Good Food Guide and London Daily Telegraph
APPETIZERS
“You never get a second chance to make a first impression.”
Will Rogers
(1879–1935)
BREAKFAST and OTHER EGG DISHES
“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.”
Carl Sandburg
(1878–1967)
SALADS
“The best number for a dinner party is two—myself and a dam’ good head waiter.”
Nubar Gulbenkian
(1896–1972)
British oil tycoon, socialite
SIDE DISHES
“When you educate a man, you educate an individual.
When you educate a woman, you educate the whole family.”
R. M. Mac Iver
SOUPS
“Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies,
which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.”
Orson Welles
(1915–85)
SAUCES and CONDIMENTS
“If you have a job without aggravation, you don’t have a job.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
BARBECUE
“If you’re going to America, bring your own food.”
Fran Lebowitz (b. 1951)
U.S. journalist.
“Fran Lebowitz’s Travel Hints”
BEEF
“When in doubt, serve beef.”
Unknown Proverb
FISH and SEAFOOD
“We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience, and without heart;
We may live without friends; and without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.”
Edward R. Bulwer, Earl of Lytton
(1831–91)
PORK
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
Virginia Woolf ‘A Room of One’s Own’
(1882-1941)
POULTRY
“I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he is unable to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.”
Henri IV of France
(1553-1610)
SANDWICHES
“One of the few moments of happiness a man knows in Australia
is that moment of meeting the eyes of another man over the tops of two beer glasses.”
Anonymous
(Found scribbled in a paperback copy of Tristram Shandy
bought in the second-hand bookstore in Alice Springs, Australia.)
VEGETARIAN
“If it’s green, I don’t eat it. I mow it!”
Ryan LaBrie (b. 1968)
AFRICA and the MIDDLE EAST
“Nothing is really work unless you’d rather be doing something else.”
James Barrie ‘Peter Pan’
(1860–1937)
ASIA
“Better a man wait for a dish than a dish wait for a man.”
Chinese Proverb
“Food should feast the eyes as well as the stomach.”
Japanese Proverb
EUROPE
“There is no such thing as a little garlic.”
Arthur Baer
LATIN AMERICA
“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.”
Hazlitt ‘Lectures on the English Comic Writers’
(1778 – 1830)
DESSERTS
“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
(1869 – 1959)
DRINKS
“All’s Well That Ends Well.”
William Shakespeare
(1564 – 1616)
