- wake up and smell the coffee- to pay attention to what is really going on around you!
- Quotes from http://www.coolnsmart.com/coffee_quotes/:
- Coffee is not my cup of tea
- A cup of coffee shared with a friend is happiness tasted and time well spent
- I make serious coffee - so strong it wakes up the neighbors !
coffee
milk
- crying over spilt milk- as in "it´s no use crying over spilt milk"- it´s no use being upset about something bad that happenned and that you can not change or do anything about it.
muffin
Burn the British: toasted English muffin-from the restaurant diner lingo
Muffin: idiot, fool. "You look like a right muffin with that hat."
"Muffin-top" is a generally pejorative, slang term used to describe the phenomenon of overhanging flesh when it spills over the waistline of trousers or skirt in a manner that resembles the top of a muffin spilling over its paper casing- from wikipedia
Muffin: idiot, fool. "You look like a right muffin with that hat."
"Muffin-top" is a generally pejorative, slang term used to describe the phenomenon of overhanging flesh when it spills over the waistline of trousers or skirt in a manner that resembles the top of a muffin spilling over its paper casing- from wikipedia
bistronomy
Bistronomy: Creative, modern, and affordable haute cuisine
After classic training at some of the city's most prestigious establishments, a number of young chefs have struck out on their own with modest daily market menus made from fresh, hand-chosen produce. Fed up with the Michelin star rat race, they have sparked what some have termed the most influential culinary trend in a decade- quote from http://gridskipper.com/travel/paris/paris-bistronomy-288769.php
Bistronomic restaurant
After classic training at some of the city's most prestigious establishments, a number of young chefs have struck out on their own with modest daily market menus made from fresh, hand-chosen produce. Fed up with the Michelin star rat race, they have sparked what some have termed the most influential culinary trend in a decade- quote from http://gridskipper.com/travel/paris/paris-bistronomy-288769.php
Bistronomic restaurant
slow food
Slow food - A movement founded by Carlo Petrini in Italy as a resistance movement to combat fast food. It claims to preserve the cultural cuisine and the associated food plants, seeds, domestic animals, and farming within an ecoregion. It was the first established part of the broader Slow movement. The movement has since expanded globally to over 83,000 members in 122 countries.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food)
tomato
"knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit;wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad"- Peter Kay one liners
chocolate
About as useful as a chocolate teapot- of no practical use/not helpful
"Anything is good if it's made of chocolate." Jo Brand
"Anything is good if it's made of chocolate." Jo Brand
calories
Quote - A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. ~James Beard
artichoke
Quote: After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps. ~Miss Piggy
goose
A wild goose never laid a tame egg. - Gaelic (on authenticity)
What´s good for the goose, it´s good for the gander
What´s good for the goose, it´s good for the gander
egg
To be a bad egg - untrostworthy, corrupt
A wild goose never laid a tame egg. - Gaelic (on authenticity)
Fry two/Let the sun shine: 2 fried eggs with unbroken yolks-from the restaurant diner lingo
Adam & Eve on a raft: two poached eggs on toast--from the restaurant diner lingo
A wild goose never laid a tame egg. - Gaelic (on authenticity)
Fry two/Let the sun shine: 2 fried eggs with unbroken yolks-from the restaurant diner lingo
Adam & Eve on a raft: two poached eggs on toast--from the restaurant diner lingo
hungry
A full person does not understand the needs of the hungry. - Irish (on food and hunger)
"Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can't believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry." Mike Kalin.
"Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can't believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry." Mike Kalin.
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