Quotes about The End
"I feel the end approaching. Quick, bring me my dessert, coffee and liqueur."
Brillat-Savarin's great aunt Pierette
“...steam was generated beyond the power of the canister to endure. As a natural consequence, the canister burst, the dead turkey sprang from his coffin of tinplate and killed the cook forthwith.”
1852 news report of an early canning industry accident
“The capon is a cockerel made as it were female by carving away of his gendering stones.”
Bartholomeus, John de Trevisa's translation of De Proprietatibus Rerum
“There are few decisive acts in cookery, each step contributes to the end result.”
Claude Peyrot, 20th century French Chef
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