FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Hi  again,


We've read some pretty interesting restaurant reviews lately where the journos have really waxed lyrical over the dishes put in front of them. "Explosion from heaven" was one term used to describe a cup of coffee recently.  It pays to remember though that food and coffee appreciation is not a new phenomonon. Writers and foodies have been waxing lyrical for a very long time.

Here's a few quotes from the first foodies who put mouth to paper. 



If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been spent asleep; if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand; if he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought:  if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint of amber-flavored chocolate... and marvels will be performed.  ~Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin


This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion.  Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place.  Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind.  The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters.  Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.  ~Honore de Balzac, "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee"


A little bit of Latte Art to lighten the mood.


Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water.  ~The Women's Petition Against Coffee, 1674




A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.  ~Henry Ward Beecher


Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company.  ~Author Unknown


If you find any interesting ones, we'd love you to send them in.


Cheers,


The Team at Kitchen Couture