Ricardo's  a little taste of Italy & Mexico 

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Food Lovers Quotations for lovers of their tummy!!!!

"The golden rule when reading the menu in a restaurant is, if you can't pronounce it, you can't afford it" Frank Muir

 "There is no love sincerer than the love of Food" George Bernard Shaw

 "When packaging materials in short supply people may have to eat fresh food" The Economist

"Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is rare hostess who can carry it off.  More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a while earlier he could have gotten it whil it was still hot." Fran Lebowitz

" An unwanted pot boils immediately" H.F. Ellis Punch

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well unless one has dined well." Virginia Woolf.

"Even were a cook to cook a fly, he would keep the breast for himself." Polish proverb

"If ever I ate a good supper at night, I dreamed of the devil, and waked in a fright" Christopher Astey

"Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are." Anthelme Brillate- Savarin

"Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup." Ludwing van Beethoven

"On the continent people have good food; in England people  have good table manners" George Miles

"Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy' " Anthony Powell

"When I ask for a watercrest sandwich, I do not mean a lot with a field in the middle of it" Oscar Wilde.

 

"The food at Ricardo's is always prepared with a bit of style and a great twist on the standard recipes. We found the flavours and freshness were exemplary....Tom M.

 

"Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else. "Hilaire Belloc

 "What on Earth is this? A piece of cod, sir! 'The piece of cod which passeth all understanding' " Attr. Sir Edwin Lutyens

 " It is impossible to have a failure with chutney; there's nothing to set and no ingredients barred."

Robert Morley

"Most kids think that a balanced diet is a hamburger in each hand":

" To know how to order and enjoy good food is part of a civilised education": Lady Blanche

"Huntley and Palmer Grew calmer and calmer When either felt restive. He ate a digestive. E.C. Bentley

"No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires so much attention." Christopher Morley

"Hunger is not debatable" Harry Hopkins

"Take this pudding away.  It has no theme" Winston Churchill

"We each day dig our grave with our teeth" Samuel Smiles

"The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as good cooks go, she went" Saki 0- Reginald.

"It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific' " Beatrix Potter

"Last night we went to a Chinese dinner at six and a French dinner at nine, and I can feel the sharks' fins navigating unhappily in the Burgundy" Peter Fleming

"Many's the long night I've Dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly" Rober Louise

"Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education" Mark Twain

"Service was good.  As everything was prepared individually the meals took a little bit of time, however they were well worth the wait.....Ingrid E..."

 

"It reqires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger": Ray Kroc, Chairman of McDonalds

 "Always get up from the table feeling as if you can still eat a penny bun": Sir Hugh Casson

 "Kissing don't last: cookery do!!

George Meredithj

"If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner.

H.S. Leigh

"To Eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day" W.l Somerset Maugham 

" A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it." Katherine Whitehorn.

" A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it." Katherine Whitehorn.

"There is no such thing as a little garlic" Arthur Baer

"Fish, to taste right, must swim three times - in water, in butter and in wine" Polish proverb

"There is no such thing as a pretty good omeltette" French proverb

"The tragedy of English cooking is that 'plain' cvooking cannot be entrusted to 'plain' cooks." Countess Morphy

"The speed with which boiling milk rises from the bottom of the pan to any point beyound the top is greater than the speed which the human brain and hand can combine to snatch the wretched thing off" H.F. Ellis Punch

"Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us." Peter De Vries

"I never see any home cooking. All I get is fancy stuff" Prince Phippip, Duke of Edinburgh

 " ...The server we have ever seen in the restaurant is Marta.  She is a sweetheart and will be able to help you chose a meal that you will enjoy.  We find the prices abit steep but would be willing to pay abit more for them as there is no other "bistro" type restaurant in Taber...." AlbertaShutterBug