MALTA FOOD QUOTES
“Malta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread.”
Alan Coren, writer, humorist (1938-2007)
“Monsieur Isouard of Malta reports that, as a result of the blockade of the island of Malta by the English and the Neapolitans, the inhabitants were reduced to eating all the horses, dogs, cats, donkeys, and rats: 'This circumstance,' he says, 'led to the discovery that donkey meat was very good.....”
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) ‘Grande Dictionnaire de cuisine’
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