Chocolate cake Quote by Lilian Jackson Braun

“It was a pity she couldn't do justice to the meal, which featured Scottish salmon, steaming roast joints, venison haunch accompanied by sausages and…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Just then, the waiter arrived, wheeling a wooden cart that carried an elaborate silver tray that was resplendent with assorted tea sandwiches of every…

— Brian O'Reilly

“He expected pages and pages of bright pictures of pancakes of every variety shown in plain stacks, or built into castles or bridges or…

— Michael Hoeye

“When everyone arrived at the formal garden, lunch had been laid out on the terrace by unseen hands. Bowls of strawberries and frosty buckets…

— Ellen Herrick

“Except for the coconut cake (filled with Meyer lemon curd and glazed with brown sugar), most of the desserts she made for Walter were…

— Julia Glass

“It was like putting ten different savory things in the cold-pantry all at once, so each took on a bit of the others’ flavors;…

— Stephen King

“The banquet proceeded. The first course, a mince of olives, shrimp and onions baked in oyster shells with cheese and parsley was followed by…

— Jack Vance

“I munched a carrot, then broke off a piece of bread and teamed it with another bite of salmon. Every single bit could be…

— Susan Fox

“Without another word, we began to eat. I was hungry, but no appetite would excuse the way we set upon those dishes. We shoveled…

— Eli Brown

“It was a glorious supper. There was kippered salmon, and Finnan haddocks, and a lamb's head, and a haggis—a celebrated Scotch dish, gentlemen, which…

— Charles Dickens

“As one who appreciated the tragic side of eating, it seemed to him that anything other than fruit for dessert implied a reprehensible frivolity,…

— Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

“Loaves of fig and pepper bread, of course. But there was also lasagna cooked in miniature pumpkins, and pumpkin-seed brittle. Roasted red pepper soup,…

— Sarah Addison Allen