Ellen Byron > Quotes

“Some nasty old fart and his weird wife died, but the airboat swamp tour was awesome.” She”
― Ellen Byron, Plantation Shudders

“That's what I love about vintage cookbooks," Ricky said. "They're an amazing window into how life was lived in past decades and how our eating habits have changed.”
― Ellen Byron, Bayou Book Thief

“Something's going on. Something funky.”
― Ellen Byron, A Very Woodsy Murder

“She’d found the mantra calmed her in life as well as in the car, so whenever she felt fear well up, as it was at the moment, she repeated it to herself. I am having a safe, uneventful journey . . . I am having a safe, uneventful journey . .”
― Ellen Byron, Bayou Book Thief

“I'm a charcuterie artist. Some people create works of art with paint or pastels. I create them with foodstuffs.”
― Ellen Byron, A Very Woodsy Murder

“You’re a fair sight prettier than moldy drywall,”
― Ellen Byron, Mardi Gras Murder

“my daughter Ginnevra—we call her Gin cuz it’s short for her name, and it’s her beverage of choice …”
― Ellen Byron, Mardi Gras Murder

“A little advice, my new friend. Never get in a pissing match with a skunk.”
― Ellen Byron, Mardi Gras Murder

“her: Hindsight is twenty-twenty vision.”
― Ellen Byron, A Very Woodsy Murder

“Most early-twentieth-century books didn't have illustrations. Corporate cookbooks, you know, ones that were created to sell a brand of something like vegetable shortening or flour, popularized the use of black-and-white photograpic images in the nineteen twenties. By the nineteen forties, most cookbooks incorporated illustrations, and colour photography became more popular. But the cookbook as a sort of a coffee table book didn't take off until the eighties and nineties.”
― Ellen Byron, Bayou Book Thief

“OMG, why do I keep talking like I was born in 1850?”
― Ellen Byron, A Very Woodsy Murder