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Consuming Passions: A Feast of Quotations Celebrating Food & the Art of Dining
A compendium of wit and witticisms on the topic of food and feasting, from writers and celebrities throughout the ages
Such quotes
“Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.” —Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
“Civilized adults do not take apple juice with dinner.” —Fran Lebowitz
“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.” —Oscar Wilde
“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” —Mark Twain
“The trouble with the world is that everybody in it is three drinks behind.” —Humphrey Bogart
“You can never be too rich or too thin.” —The Duchess of Windsor
“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.” —Mae West
“Life is too short to stuff mushrooms.” —Shirley Conrant
Such quotes
“Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.” —Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
“Civilized adults do not take apple juice with dinner.” —Fran Lebowitz
“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.” —Oscar Wilde
“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” —Mark Twain
“The trouble with the world is that everybody in it is three drinks behind.” —Humphrey Bogart
“You can never be too rich or too thin.” —The Duchess of Windsor
“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.” —Mae West
“Life is too short to stuff mushrooms.” —Shirley Conrant
316 pages, Paperback
Published October 12, 1986
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Jonathon Green
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I am a lexicographer, that is a dictionary maker, specialising in slang, about which I have been compiling dictionaries, writing and broadcasting since 1984. I have also written a history of lexicography. After working on my university newspaper I joined the London ‘underground press’ in 1969, working for most of the then available titles, such as Friends, IT and Oz. I have been publishing books since the mid-1970s, spending the next decade putting together a number of dictionaries of quotations, before I moved into what remains my primary interest, slang. I have also published three oral histories: one on the hippie Sixties, one on first generation immigrants to the UK and one on the sexual revolution and its development. Among other non-slang titles have been three dictionaries of occupational jargon, a narrative history of the Sixties, a book on cannabis, and an encyclopedia of censorship. As a freelancer I have broadcast regularly on the radio, made appearances on TV, including a 30-minute study of slang in 1996, and and written columns both for academic journals and for the Erotic Review.
My slang work has reached its climax, but I trust not its end, with the publication in 2010 of Green’s Dictionary of Slang, a three volume, 6,200-page dictionary ‘on historical principles’ offering some 110,000 words and phrases, backed up by around 410,000 citations or usage examples. The book covers all anglophone countries and its timeline stretches from around 1500 up to the present day. For those who prefer something less academic, I published the Chambers Slang Dictionary, a single volume book, in 2008. Given that I am in no doubt that the future of reference publishing lies in digital form, it is my intention to place both these books on line in the near future.
I am a lexicographer, that is a dictionary maker, specialising in slang, about which I have been compiling dictionaries, writing and broadcasting since 1984. I have also written a history of lexicography. After working on my university newspaper I joined the London ‘underground press’ in 1969, working for most of the then available titles, such as Friends, IT and Oz. I have been publishing books since the mid-1970s, spending the next decade putting together a number of dictionaries of quotations, before I moved into what remains my primary interest, slang. I have also published three oral histories: one on the hippie Sixties, one on first generation immigrants to the UK and one on the sexual revolution and its development. Among other non-slang titles have been three dictionaries of occupational jargon, a narrative history of the Sixties, a book on cannabis, and an encyclopedia of censorship. As a freelancer I have broadcast regularly on the radio, made appearances on TV, including a 30-minute study of slang in 1996, and and written columns both for academic journals and for the Erotic Review.
My slang work has reached its climax, but I trust not its end, with the publication in 2010 of Green’s Dictionary of Slang, a three volume, 6,200-page dictionary ‘on historical principles’ offering some 110,000 words and phrases, backed up by around 410,000 citations or usage examples. The book covers all anglophone countries and its timeline stretches from around 1500 up to the present day. For those who prefer something less academic, I published the Chambers Slang Dictionary, a single volume book, in 2008. Given that I am in no doubt that the future of reference publishing lies in digital form, it is my intention to place both these books on line in the near future.
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