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Never Eat More Than You Can Lift and Other Food Quotes and Quips: 1,500 Notable Quotables About Edibles and Potables
by: Sharon Tyler Herbst

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9780553069013
ISBN: 0553069012
Label: Broadway
Manufacturer: Broadway
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 1997-05
Publisher: Broadway
Release Date: May 19, 1997
Sales Rank: 935424
Studio: Broadway

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Sharon Tyler Herbst, the foremost writer of user-friendly food reference books, offers an 'appeteasing' collection of racy, wicked, funny, informative, and historical quotations about food and drink.

Feast on:

A delicious assortment of more than 1,500 quotes on food- and drink-related subjects including dinner parties, health food, holidays, diets, gourmets, gluttons, manners, and cocktails.

More than 200 subjects arranged in a user-friendly A-to-Z format.

Quotations from an eclectic and intriguing array of over 700 personalities--including Woody Allen, Winston Churchill, Bette Davis, Steve Martin, Miss Piggy, Julia Child, and more.

A potpourri of fifty easy recipes, including Maple-Kissed Blueberries, Red-Eye Gravy, Peppered Caramel Bacon, Bodacious Brownie Thins, and Chocolate Cinnamon Toast.

Informative, entertaining tidbits featuring anecdotes, etymologies, history, and cooking tips.

Two indexes and extensive cross-referencing make it easy to find what you're looking for.

Amazon.com Review:
Sharyn Tyler Herbst lifted the phrase 'Never Eat More Than You Can Lift' from the mouth of Miss Piggy to make it the title for her 12th volume on food. This is a work to love and get lost in. It makes you want to read many of its '1500 Notable Quotables About Edibles and Potables' out loud to anyone around, or reach for the phone to share choice finds. Information about specific foods, cooking tips, and recipes set this book apart from others in the genre of culinary quote collections. Herbst also draws from a wider range than others, quoting from sources as ancient as Aristophanes, contemporary as Miss Piggy, famous as F. Scott Fitzgerald, and obscure as Robert Orben. You'll find quotes here that do not appear in other books of this type. Add this to the appealing look of this book and you have a delicious volume.

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- Amusing compilation of food-related quotes
"Never Eat More Than You Can Lift" is a goulash, a mix of this and that and a lot of other things.

It's a quote book and the source for Twain's swipe at American cookery. It's also a cookbook with recipes for chutney ham rolls, baked caramel apples and garlic grilled okra. It's an advice book with hints for making custard, peeling cucumbers and telling the difference among English, American, Dijon, German and Chinese mustards.

Weaving their way among these mini-essays are 1,500 thoughts, one-liners and musings about food. Author Sharon Tyler Herbst casts a wide net for her quotations, from Arab emir Abd-al Kadir ("Coffee is the common man's gold, and like gold, it brings to every man the feeling of luxury and nobility.") to writer and editor William Zinsser ("[The hot dog] . . . a twin pillar of democracy along with Mom's apple pie. In fact, now that Mom's apple pie comes frozen ... Read More

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