The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn’t get… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I've done it so many times. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“They were most peculiar. And they eat pizza pie.” “For breakfast?” “No, for lunch and dinner. But it’s not a pie at… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“It is a challenge to believe that there was ever a time that airline food was exciting, when stewardesses were happy to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Vitamin B proved to be not one vitamin but several, which is why we have B1, B2, and so on. To add… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“As a rule, you knew it was time to eat when you could hear potatoes exploding in the oven. Happily, all this… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Part of the reason people could eat so well was that many foods that we now think of as delicacies were plenteous… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“One consequential change is that people used to get most of their calories at breakfast and midday, with only the evening top-up… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Incidentally, the long-held idea that spices were used to mask rotting food doesn't stand up to much scrutiny. The only people who… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Curiously, among the few survivors from this culinary onslaught is one that is most difficult to understand: the fish knife. Though it… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“The dining table was a plain board called by that name. It was hung on the wall when not in use, and… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Is there anything, apart from a really good chocolate cream pie and receiving a large unexpected cheque in the post, to beat… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Of all the minerals the most vital in dietary terms is sodium, which we mostly consume in the form of sodium chloride… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“It’s a bit burned,” my mother would say apologetically at every meal, presenting you with a piece of meat that looked like… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Two of the casters contained salt and pepper, but what went into the third caster is unknown. It is generally presumed to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“By the 1920s if you wanted to work behind a lunch counter you needed to know that 'Noah's boy' was a slice… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Because bread was so important, the laws governing its purity were strict and the punishment severe. A baker who cheated his customers… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Sulphuric acid was added to vinegar for extra sharpness, chalk to milk, turpentine to gin. Arsenite of copper was used to make… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“I don't wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all. — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“But Welsh spellings are as nothing compared with Irish Gaelic, a language in which spelling and pronunciation give the impression of having been devised… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they were worn without underwear. . .… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“The dining table was a plain board called by that name. It was hung on the wall when not in use, and was perched… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“From almost nothing, France in four years built up an aircraft industry that employed nearly 200,000 people and produced some 70,000 planes. Britain built… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“A diarist named George Templeton Strong recorded in the winter of 1866 that even with two furnaces alight and all the fireplaces blazing, he… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome. — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“What made this particularly interesting is that John Howard is by far the dullest man in Australia. Imagine a very committed funeral home director… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
