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CONVICTION & COOKING

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CONVICTION

see: "PRINCIPLES"
see "BELIEF" for other related links


Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous
the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
--Edward Abbey (1927—1989)
American author.
_A Voice Crying in the Wilderness_ (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) [1989],
ch. 3, "Government and Politics"

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
--Thomas Carlyle (1795—1881)
Scottish historian and political philosopher.

No more duty can be urged upon those who
are entering the great theater of life than
simple loyalty to their best convictions.
--Edwin Hubbel Chapin (1814—1880)
American clergyman and author.
In Joan F. Marques
_Empower The Leader In You!_, p. 18 [2004].

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies
will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it
by its friends.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.

Convictions do not imply reasons.
--Margaret Deland (1857—1945)
American poet.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look;
at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896—1940)
American novelist.
_Bernice Bobs Her Hair_ [1920]

People in those old times had convictions; we moderns have only
opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic
cathedral.
--Heinrich Heine (1797—1856)
German poet.
"The French Stage" [1837], ch. 9

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one
has had individuality enough and courage enough
to stand by his own convictions.
--Robert Green Ingersoll (1833—1899)
American politician and orator know as "the great agnostic."
_Individuality_ [1873]

It is the absolutist, whether of left or right,
that democracy has to fear. This is the
man who thinks that he alone possesses
wisdom, patriotism and virtue, who recognizes
no obligation to accept community decisions
with which he disagrees, who regards any
means as justified by the end, who views
the political process as a power struggle
to impose conformity rather than a means
to reconcile differences. Democracy is a
method of reaching a consensus. Those
who reject the consensus reject democracy.
--Stanley Marcus (1905—2002)
American retailer.
[In 1964.]

Give us clear vision, that we may know where to stand
and what to stand for — because unless we stand for
something, we shall fall for anything.
--Peter Marshall (1902—1949)
Clergyman, author, and Senate chaplain.
In a Senate prayer [1947].

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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.
_Human, All Too Human_ [1878], ch. 1, tr. Marion Faber [1984]


A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is
a matter of having the courage for an *attack* on one's convictions!
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.
_Works_ [1920-1929], vol. XVI

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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
--Blaise Pascal (1623—1662)
French mathematician, physicist, and moralist.
_Pensées_ [1670] #894.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when
they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
--Laurens van der Post (1906—1996)
South African explorer and writer.
_The Lost World of the Kalahari_ [1958], ch. 3

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
--Oscar Wilde (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.
_The Portrait of Mr. W.H._ [1889], ch. 1

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
--William Butler Yeats (1865—1939)
Irish poet and dramatist who received the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
"The Second Coming" [1921]



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COOKING

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see "FOOD & DRINK" for related links
see "HOME & FAMILY" for related links


Be content to remember that those who can make
omelettes properly can do nothing else.
--Hilaire Belloc (1870—1953)
British poet, essayist, historian, and novelist.
_A Conversation With a Cat_ [1931]

Anyone who eats three meals a day
should understand why cookbooks
outsell sex books three to one.
--L.M. [Louis Malcolm] Boyd (1927—2007)
American newspaper columnist.

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To Serve And Eat Raw Oysters On The Half Shell —

I like either spoon or fork, but I must have
halved or quartered lemons with mine; I squeeze
a few drops over the oyster, watch it cringe so
I know it is alive and well, then in it goes.

--Julia Child (1912—2004)
American chef, television personality, and author.
_From Julia Child's Kitchen_

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I do dinner in three phases.
Serve the food, clear the table,
bury the dead.
--Phyllis Diller (1917— )
American comedian.

I'm a man. Men cook outside. Women make the
three-bean salad. That's the way it is and
always has been, since the first settlers of
Levittown. That outdoor grilling is a manly
pursuit has long been beyond question. If
this wasn't firmly understood, you'd never
get grown men to put on those aprons with
pictures of dancing wienies and things on
the front...
--William Geist,
"New York Times Magazine"

Home-made dishes that drive
one from home.
--Thomas Hood (1799—1845)
English poet and humorist.

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Walter Savage Landor (1775—1864)
British poet, essayist, and critic.

Landor's cook displeased his master one day
by serving an indifferent meal. Landor in a
passion threw him through an open window.
The cook landed awkwardly in the flower bed
below and broke a limb. Landor cried out,
'Good God, I forgot the violets!'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.]

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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony,
when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If
that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what
cause you would have a cook flogged.
--Martial [Marcus Valerius Martialis] (38/41—103)
Roman poet.
_Epigrams_ [86-98], bk. VIII

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"Ballad of Culinary Frustration"
by Phyllis McGinley

The world is full of wistful ones who hoard their souvenirs.
The spinster keeps a faded rose through all the faded years,
A travel folder lures the clerk while he dreams of a foreign sky,
But I preserve the recipes I'll never dare to try.

Vichyssoise, bouillabaisse,
Terrapin mousse,
Cucumber hollandaise,
Staffordshire goose,
Oh, the ginger, the clove,
Oh, the sauces well-shaken!
But here on my stove
Lies the liver-and-bacon.

On idle days, on rainy days, when all the world is shut out,
I don the yellow clippings of the recipes I've cut out.
And lovingly I memorize directions neatly pasted,
For scones and soups and savories I've never even tasted.

With eggs and with sirup,
With herbs and with cream,
In fancy I stir up
An epicure's dream
Of Netherland crumb cakes,
Of sweetbreads-in-mustard;
Of pasties and plumcakes
And Devonshire custard.

Oh, some folks dote on serious tomes, some read romances rippling,
But a cookbook is my Odyssey, my Shakespeare, and my Kipling.
For while I baste the leg of lamb or stir the tapioca,
I'm visioning a a vol-au-vent, or a nougat à la Mocha —

Some gossamer trifle
That gourmets adore,
As French as the Eiffel
(And probably more),
Like mushrooms with spices
And artichoke hearts,
And aspics and ices
And shortbreads and tarts,
With crusts that are thinner
Than sea foam on top . . .
My menu for dinner?
We're having a chop.

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Kissing don't last: cookery do!
--George Meredith (1828—1909)
English novelist and poet.
_The Ordeal of Richard Feverel_ [1859]

On the Continent people have good food;
in England people have good table manners.
--George Meredith (1828—1909)
English novelist and poet.
_How to be an Alien_ [1946]

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Advertisement in the Battle Creek (Mich.) Enquirer.

Full service hotel looking to expand its existing food operation
with a quality Sioux chief. Salary range 25KO, commensurate
with experience.

--_New Yorker_ (magazine) [24 December 2007]

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Stupidity in the kitchen; woman as cook;
the dreadful thoughtlessness with which
the nourishment of the family and the
master of the house is provided for!
Woman does not understand what food
means—and she wants to be the cook!

If woman were a thoughtful creature, she
would, having been the cook for thousands
of years, surely have had to discover the
major facts of physiology, and likewise
gained possession of the art of healing.

It is through bad female cooks—through
the complete absence of reason in the
kitchen, that the evolution of man has
been longest retarded and most harmed;
even today, things are hardly any
better. A speech for young ladies.

--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.
_Beyond Good and Evil_ [1886],
"Our Virtues," No. 234

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There were men, and there were women. He was
clear on that. Sam Vimes was an uncomplicated
man when it came to what the poets called
"the lists of love."*
---footnote----
* He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance
to cookery: It fascinated people, they sometimes
bought books full of complicated recipes and
interesting pictures, and sometimes when they
were hungry they created vast banquets in their
imagination?but at the end of the day they'd
settle quite happily for egg and chips, if it was
well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.
--Terry Pratchett (1948— )
English science fiction writer.
_The Fifth Elephant_

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go;
and as cooks go, she went.
--Saki [Hector Hugh Munro] (1870—1916)
Scottish writer.
_Reginald_ [1904] "Reginald on Besetting Sins"

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...And now we'll add a _soupçon_ of butter (throws
in a stick), 2-1/2 cups of heavy cream, and a pinch
of salt (tosses in a handful). There, that's better.
---Julia Child's generic recipe for
_Les Arteries Clogged_ (apocryphal)

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Cooking lesson #1: Don't fry bacon in the nude

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"Miss Foggerty's Cake" author unknown

As I sat by my window last evening,
The letterman brought unto me
A little gilt-edged invitation
Saying, "Gilhooley, come over to tea."

Sure I knew 'twas the Foggertys sent it,
So I went for old friendship's sake,
And the first thing they gave me to tackle
Was a slice of Miss Foggerty's cake.

Miss Martin wanted to taste it,
But really there weren't no use,
For they worked at it over an hour
And couldn't get none of it loose.

Till Foggerty went for a hatchet
And Killey came in with a saw;
The cake was enough, by the powers,
To paralyse any man's jaw.

In it were cloves, nutmegs and berries,
Raisins, citron and cinnamon, too;
There were sugar, pepper and cherries,
And the crust of it nailed on with glue.

Miss Foggerty, proud as a preacher,
Kept winking and blinking away,
Till she fell over Flanigan's brogans
And spilt a whole brewing of tay.

"O, Gilhooley," she cried, "you're not eating,
Just take another piece for my sake."
"No thanks, Miss Foggerty," says I,
"But I'd like the recipe for that cake."

McNulley was took with the colic,
McFadden complained of his head,
McDoodle fell down on the sofa,
And swore that he wished he was dead.

Miss Martin fell down in hysterics,
And there she did wiggle and shake,
While every man swore he was poisoned
By eating Miss Foggerty's cake.


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