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"Every breakup is like a snowflake. They're all different but they all end up in the same slush pile." - Chris Bluemer, during a Billy Collins workshop (Palm Beach Poetry Festival, January 2005)
"It's dangerous to cry in a poem -- better for the reader than the writer to cry." - Billy Collins, during the same session
"There should always be onions in your kitchen, for should a stovetop fire occur, two quartered onions added to the center of the flames will immediately starve them of oxygen. This is a tried and true method that comes from old Europe where chimney fires were numerous, and many larger fires were avoided by applying this method." - Madeleine Kamman, The New Making of a Cook, p. 635
"According to a Roman superstition, evil spirits often lurked inside fresh eggs. Many Romans believed that before they cracked open and ate an egg, they should pierce the shell so the evil spirits could escape. The sharp point at the end of [their spoons] was perfectly designed to do this." - James Cross Giblin, From Hand to Mouth; or, How We Invented Knives, Forks, Spoons, and Chopsticks and the Table Manners to Go with Them
"My fascination with croquettes started when I was living in Amsterdam, more than a decade ago. As I was often not sober, for all sorts of reasons, I managed to fall in love with a national perversion: warm and cheesy grease balls that came out of a vending machine." - Yotam Ottolenghi, introducing a recipe for "Eggplant Croquettes" (Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes...)
"It's dangerous to cry in a poem -- better for the reader than the writer to cry." - Billy Collins, during the same session
"There should always be onions in your kitchen, for should a stovetop fire occur, two quartered onions added to the center of the flames will immediately starve them of oxygen. This is a tried and true method that comes from old Europe where chimney fires were numerous, and many larger fires were avoided by applying this method." - Madeleine Kamman, The New Making of a Cook, p. 635
"According to a Roman superstition, evil spirits often lurked inside fresh eggs. Many Romans believed that before they cracked open and ate an egg, they should pierce the shell so the evil spirits could escape. The sharp point at the end of [their spoons] was perfectly designed to do this." - James Cross Giblin, From Hand to Mouth; or, How We Invented Knives, Forks, Spoons, and Chopsticks and the Table Manners to Go with Them
"My fascination with croquettes started when I was living in Amsterdam, more than a decade ago. As I was often not sober, for all sorts of reasons, I managed to fall in love with a national perversion: warm and cheesy grease balls that came out of a vending machine." - Yotam Ottolenghi, introducing a recipe for "Eggplant Croquettes" (Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes...)
