Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Paris Cafe's
Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
-Turkish Proverb

In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well-being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.
-ERNEST HEMMINGWAY, expatriate and writer


Wine is bottled poetry.
-ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, writer
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Eat with the fingers, drink with the nose.
-JOSEPH DELTEIL, writer


Wine makes a symphony of a good meal.
-FERNANDE GARVIN, chef and writer

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Quaintest thoughts, queerest fancies come to life and fade away. What care I how time advances; I am drinking ale today.
-EDGAR ALLAN POE, writer



Without question the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
-DAVE BARRY, comedian and writer
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