Anabelle/Ideas

On Cooking:
✻ Julia Child

"The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude."

✻ Craig Claiborne

"Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love."

✻ Anthony Bourdain

"Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn.

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I've worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold.

Oh, I'll accommodate them, I'll rummage around for something to feed them, for a 'vegetarian plate', if called on to do so. Fourteen dollars for a few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my food cost fine."

On Brewing:
✻ Anonymous

"Give a man a beer, he'll drink for the day. Teach a man to brew, he'll be drunk the rest of his life."

✻ Friar Tuck in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves

"This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption... Beer!"

On Alchemy:
✻ Jean Dubuis

"Alchemy is the art of manipulating life, and consciousness in matter, to help it evolve, or to solve problems of inner disharmonies."

✻ Albert Poisson

Scholasticism with its subtle argumentation,
Theology with its ambiguous phraseology,
Astrology, so vast and so complex,
are all children's games when compared with alchemy.

On Boggan Girls:

I love boggan girls, so should you

Think you won't fit? Brother, you do!

Soft and warm as a fresh-baked bread

those sweet little girls, Almost to nice to eat!

And, oh, they're fine pillows if you don't mind the snoring,

but the best part of having a boggan girl...

Is the breakfast she makes in the morning!

Go a round or four if you fancy some fun,

Try to tire one out, it can't be done!

But once you get up, she'll put it back in!

Don't get the idea that her bed is boring...

But the best part of having a boggan girl..

Is the breakfast she makes in the morning!

Girls come in every size and flavor

and every man's got a taste he favors

Some men like the tits and some like the legs!

But I like the boggan girl's rye toast and eggs!

Oh humans are fine and satyrs worth exploring!

But wait 'till you've had a boggan girl

and the breakfast she makes in the morning!

I've head that their size is unnerving indeed,

but they come to your waist, how taller d'you need?

Oh, most pass them by but a few realize!

That everything on 'em is sweet and bite-sized!

There's plenty who'll take all that muffing your scoring!

Because the best part of having a boggan girl

Is the breakfast she makes in the morning!

When the picking are slim, and the crowd disapproving,

A clever bard calls it a night and gets moving...

Time to find a boggan-girl and hope he can schtup her,

since hasn't had lunch and he can't pay for supper...

Some call it a living, and some call it whoring!

But I'd starve without those boggan girls!

And the breakfast they make in the morning!