Melba's Jammin' <
[email protected]> deliciously posted in
news:[email protected]:
> In article <
[email protected]>, Steve Wertz
> <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:33:58 -0600, Melba's Jammin'
>> <
[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >> Oh, and BTW: Your quote is not "anonymous". It's
>> >> almost certainly a Duncan Hines quote.
>> >
>> >Can you find a citation attributing it to Duncan Hines?
>> >I'd be curious.
>> >
>> >I checked several websites and the only attribution I
>> >can find for that quotation is Anonymous. I found these
>> >by Hines: "More people will die from hit-or-miss eating
>> >than from hit-and-run driving;" and "I've run less risk
>> >driving my way across country than eating my way across
>> >it. " Maybe my search string is incomplete.
>>
>> It's not on a website. If you'd read about Duncan Hines
>> (in books), these are the exact same kinds of quotes he
>> was known for.
>>
>> Read 'Adventures in Good Eating' (1944) and specifically,
>> page 37 of "Kitchen Culture: 50 years of food fads"
>> (Pharos Books, 1991), where he is credited with saying:
>>
>> "If the soup had been as warm as the wine; if the wine
>> had been as old as the turkey; and the turkey had a
>> breast like the maid, it would have been a swell dinner".
>
> Hah! Thanks.
>
>> Obviously it's been re-phrased here and there, but that's
>> essentially the exact same quote. Contrary to popular
>> belief, not everything can be found on the web;
>
> Of course. It's easy to fall into the thought.
>
>>There are still books.
>
> Sure enough. And may there always be. There's something
> satisfying to me to turn a paper page.
Isn't that the truth. I buy books all the time and the SO
just shakes his head. He doesn't understand why I bother
with so much info available online. Well, when his ass
isn't around pestering me I like a nice cup of coffee and a
good book to read. The funny excerpts in cookbooks always
crack me up and I have the complete set of the Harvard
Classics I have not, and maybe will never get through. It
is strange how I get out of the reading mode though and
then all of a sudden I'm going through 3 books a week after
a long dry spell.
Michael <- currently reading a cookbook sent by a beloved
friend from NYC
--
Deathbed statement...
"Codeine . . . bourbon." ~~Tallulah Bankhead, actress, d.
December 12, 1968