Cook's Alphabet of Quotations

By Maria Polushkin Robbins

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052593359X
• ISBN13: 9780525933595
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

Filled with all manner of culinary gems

For pure fun, it's hard to beat a great book of quotations. Maria Polushkin Robbins doesn't disappoint with this high-class compendium of culinary quotations on everything from strawberries to beer to garlic to roast beef and everything in between. Some of the gems included herein:"I'm a Christian, but that doesn't mean I'm a long-faced square. I like a little bourbon."- LILLIAN CARTER"Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everyone."- SAMUEL PEPYS"The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went."- SAKI (H. H. MUNRO)In addition to these concise bits, there are longer descriptive passages from novels. What a fun stocking stuffer or Easter basket gift for your favorite cook!