#cuisine

North Korea is a famine state. In the fields, you can see people picking up loose grains of rice and kernels of corn, gleaning every scrap. They look pinched and exhausted. In the few, dingy restaurants in the city, and even in the few modern hotels, you can read the Pyongyang Times through the soup, or the tea, or the coffee. Morsels of inexplicable fat or gristle are served as 'duck.' One evening I gave in and tried a bowl of dog stew, which at least tasted hearty and spicy—they wouldn't tell me the breed—but then found my appetite crucially diminished by the realization that I hadn't seen a domestic animal, not even the merest cat, in the whole time I was there. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dog-meat #dogs #famine #hotels #korean-cuisine

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer. ↗

— Lydia Davis

#cooking #cuisine #diet #food #foods

Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman." [Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson's cooking.] ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#cooking #cuisine #food #limitations #scotch

A culinary triumph: the ingenious use of food as an offensive weapon. ↗

— James Hamilton-Paterson

#food

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dogs #humour #korean-cuisine #north-korea #pyongyang

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#capability #cuisine #fully #good #good things

Because normally with Western cuisine, you'll serve vegetables separate from the meat, so kids will eat the meat and never touch the vegetables. ↗

— Martin Yan

#cuisine #eat #kids #meat #never

Through my work and travels I have been lucky enough to have been exposed to various eclectic cuisine running the gamut from small local cafes to iconic five-star restaurants. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#cuisine #eclectic #enough #exposed #gamut

I especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines. ↗

— Eva Herzigova

#especially #french #i #italian #japanese

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#cuisine #new #new orleans #orleans #rather