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Ambrose Bierce Quotes about Food

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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

Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

Religious, Food, Perspective

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.78, University of Georgia Press

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

PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

Food, Animal, Pigs

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.164, 谷月社

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Food, Science, Men

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

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

WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

Christian, Food, Wine

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.238, University of Georgia 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

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

Food, Wine, Drunk

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.17, 谷月社

Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.

Food, Wine, Bottles

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2696, Delphi Classics

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

SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.

Food, Ninety Nine, Civilization

Ambrose Bierce (1958). “The Devil's Dictionary: A Selection of the Bitter Definitions of Ambrose Bierce”, p.163, Prabhat Prakashan

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

PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

Food, Names, Pie

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.164, 谷月社

Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

Food, Evil, Moderation

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.77, 谷月社

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

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