"Millions of American women, and some men, commit……" — Rex Stout

"Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef’s ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish. American women should themselves be boiled in water."

Ambrosia Quotes American Quotes American Women Quotes Boiled Quotes Buttered Quotes Chef Quotes Commit Quotes Corn Quotes Created Quotes Day Quotes Dish Quotes Dishes Quotes Edible Quotes Else Quotes Ever Created Quotes Every Summer Quotes Finer Quotes Forty Quotes Forty Minutes Quotes Hottest Quotes Husk Quotes Imagination Quotes Ingenuity Quotes Into Quotes Men Quotes Men Commit Quotes Mere Quotes Millions Quotes Minutes Quotes Nothing Quotes Nothing Else Quotes Nutritious Quotes Outrage Quotes Oven Quotes Ovens Quotes Possible Quotes Provender Quotes Roasted Quotes Salted Quotes Should Quotes Shucked Quotes Some Quotes Summer Quotes Summer Day Quotes Summer Days Quotes Superb Quotes Sweet Quotes Sweet Corn Quotes Table Quotes Tables Quotes Treat Quotes Treats Quotes Turning Quotes Water Quotes Women Quotes

45 Quotes by Rex Stout

Rex Stout has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

See all 45 quotes by Rex Stout »

More Ambrosia Quotes

This quote is filed under Ambrosia Quotes, one of 14 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Puerto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee.… — Laurie Colwin
Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things. — Friedrich Nietzsche
For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly… — Howell Raines
There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank… — Joseph Campbell
I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed… — Charles Baudelaire
Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better… — James Earl Jones
Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the… — Charles Baudelaire
I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked up a box… — Sarah Dessen
No one has ever been able to pinpoint the trigger." "But?" "But it is legend that ambrosia only rises when-"… — Nalini Singh
The one and only time an archangel can Make another angel is when our bodies produce a substance known as… — Nalini Singh
Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal… — Julia Child

See all 14 Ambrosia Quotes »