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Ambrose Bierce Quotes about Cooking

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MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

Food, Cooking, Body

Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.720, Library of America

FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs

Food, Science, Cooking

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.72, 谷月社

Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.

Food, Cooking, Substance

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.47, University of Georgia Press

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

Food, Cooking, Bread

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.43, 谷月社

EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.

Religious, Food, Cooking

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.71, University of Georgia Press

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Food, Cooking, Madness

Ambrose Bierce (2004). “The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary”, p.41, See Sharp Press

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Food, Cooking, Religion

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.162, University of Georgia Press

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

Food, Paris, Cooking

Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.606, Library of America

TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.

Food, Pigs, Cooking

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.229, University of Georgia Press

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,' said Brillat-Savarin, beginning an anecdote. 'What!' interrupted Rochebriant; 'eating dinner in a drawing-room?' 'I must beg you to observe, monsieur,' explained the great gastronome, 'that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before.'

Food, Drawing, Cooking

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2387, Delphi Classics

TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

Food, Passion, Cooking

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.223, University of Georgia Press

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

Strong, Food, Cooking

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.225, University of Georgia Press

Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

Food, Essence, Cooking

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

Food, Cooking, Feelings

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.197, 谷月社

PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

Food, Cooking, Portugal

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.185, University of Georgia Press

RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

Food, Cooking, Bankers

FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith.

Long, Baptism, Cooking

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.91, University of Georgia Press

HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

Food, Cooking, Definitions

Ambrose Bierce (1958). “The Devil's Dictionary: A Selection of the Bitter Definitions of Ambrose Bierce”, p.70, Prabhat Prakashan

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

Food, Cooking, Pieces

CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

Food, Cooking, Lobster

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2375, Delphi Classics

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

Food, Cooking, Needs

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.14, University of Georgia Press

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