Quotations about Breads, Grains, Potatoes, Starchy Foods
The bread is sweet; mamma's hands filled it with love when she made it; the cheese is fresh, and the tea is warm. ~Jay Benson Hamilton, "How Santa Claus Made One Dollar Hold Out," 1891
I'd rather have bread and cheese with my darlings than roast turkey, cranberry sauce, and mince-pie all alone. ~Jay Benson Hamilton, "How Santa Claus Made One Dollar Hold Out," 1891
In they drop with a click, clack, click,
Kernels so hard and yellow;
Round they whirl with a hop, skip, hop,
Each little dancing fellow.
Up they leap with a snap! crack! snap!
Tossing so light and airy;
Out they pour with a soft, swift rush,
Snowballs fit for a fairy!
~Sophia T. Newman, "Popcorn Song," in Good Housekeeping, February 1905
Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity. ~Adam Smith
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow. ~A. A. Milne (1882–1956), "Lunch," Not That It Matters
With good bread and good coffee, a square inch of choice butter makes a breakfast. ~Maud C. Cooke, Breakfast, Dinner and Supper, 1897
In blissful oblivion the soldier lay dreaming
Of cookies and doughnuts and mother-made bread.
~Nicholas Lester (b.1842)
SPAGHETTI From Lat. spadix, branch, or fork, and gestamen, burden. A burden for the fork. ~Charles Wayland Towne, The Foolish Dictionary, Executed by Gideon Wurdz, Master of Pholly, Doctor of Loquacious Lunacy, etc., 1904
Let the sky rain potatoes... ~William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, c.1600
They're clearly cutting back on salt. Isn't that the point of the pretzel — to have it be both salty and crunchy? Otherwise it's toast. ~The Middle, "The Wind Chimes," 2014, written by Jana Hunter and Mitch Hunter
The Sun is Low, to Say the Least,
Although it is Well-Red;
Yet, Since it Rises in the Yeast,
It Should be Better Bred!
~Gelett Burgess
I go to school... We carry brown bread and butter, and doughnuts, and cheese, and apple-pie in tin pails, for luncheon. Don't you remember the brown cupboard in Aunt Oldways' kitchen, how sagey, and doughnutty, and good it always smelt? It smells just so now, and everything tastes just the same. ~Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Real Folks, 1871
"While I've no gold," he whispered,
"Love's riches shall be thine,
Though we, in a modest cottage,
On bread and water dine."
"With love's warm flame to serve us,
At slight expense," said she,
"We can make of bread and water
Sweet feasts of toast and tea."
~The Tattler in Town Topics, reprinted in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1903