Iced tea Quote by David Brooks

“What tended to happen, to Colin and Mary at least, was that subjects were not explored so much as defensively reiterated, or forced into…

— Ian McEwan

“The host took care to produce one or another of these whenever the current subjects seemed about used up, so that the conversation gathered…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“cooking was an art—and art was subjective. One man could love an ice sculpture while another thought it boring. It was the same with…

— Brandon Sanderson

“The socializing hadn't been so bad, he acknowledged, and he couldn't say he minded the food, though a man would do better with a…

— Nora Roberts

“Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.”

— Marcel Proust

“To think that between a Hamburger and a Humburger, she would - invariably, with icy precision - plump for the former.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Stories, like food, lose their flavor if cooked in a hurry.”

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

“There was nothing to tempt me from the choice of desserts, so I opted instead for a coffee, which was bitter and lukewarm. Naturally,…

— Gail Honeyman

“But they are two different topics, and should be two different conversations. Trying to talk about both topics simultaneously is like mixing your apple…

— Douglas Stone

“In that moment, cooking became a greater joy than I had ever known. I was telling a story through the food we created. It…

— John Currence

“People came in search of alcohol and food and the illusion that if you combined alcohol and food, they added up to meaning.”

— Jarett Kobek

“While we are aiming at clear ideas, the food gets cold and tasteless.”

— Johann Georg Hamann