Cooking with Fernet Branca Quotes

“Sometimes in the company of others I find a disagreeable spirit of competitiveness kicks in and each person is shamed into spending rather more than he would have wished. This is a historically established syndrome, of course. One Magus going to Bethlehem would probably have sprung for a box of After Eights. Three Magi on the same trip found themselves laden with gold, frankincense and myrrh and bitterly comtemplating their overdrafts.”
― James Hamilton-Paterson, Cooking with Fernet Branca

“The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art.”
― James Hamilton-Paterson, Cooking with Fernet Branca

“I also wish I'd been born with a clearly defined talent for something, or else stupid.”
― James Hamilton-Paterson, Cooking with Fernet Branca

“Racism. . . . fuelled by bitter assertions that no immigrant ever has the least respect for the environment in his adopted country because he never really believes it's his.”
― James Hamilton-Paterson, Cooking with Fernet Branca

“A culinary triumph: the ingenious use of food as an offensive weapon.”
― James Hamilton-Paterson, Cooking with Fernet Branca

“I was simultaneously elated and depressed, a common enough state of mind these days when people are offered a great deal of money to do something repugnant.”
― James Hamilton-Paterson, Cooking with Fernet Branca

“I’m interested in things that are none of my business,
and I’m bored by things that are important to know.”
—Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes strip cartoon, 1994)”
― James Hamilton-Paterson, Cooking with Fernet Branca

“Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of time has been occupied?”
― James Hamilton-Paterson, Cooking with Fernet Branca