9780449902080

Consuming Passions

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9780449902080

Paperback|9780449902080


Overview

A compendium of wit and witticisms on the topic of food and feasting, from writers and celebrities throughout the ages
 
Such quotes include:

"Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are."--Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
 
"Civilized adults do not take apple juice with dinner."--Fran Lebowitz
 
"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."--Oscar Wilde
 
"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."--Mark Twain
 
"The trouble with the world is that everybody in it is three drinks behind."--Humphrey Bogart
 
"You can never be too rich or too thin."--The Duchess of Windsor
 
"I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond."--Mae West
 
"Life is too short to stuff mushrooms."--Shirley Conrant

ISBN-13

9780449902080

ISBN-10

0449902080

Weight

0.85 Pounds

Dimensions

5.50 x 0.75 x 8.50 In

List Price

$19.00

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

316 pages

Publisher

Ballantine Books

Published On

1986-10-12



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