Ambrose Bierce Culinary Quotations

TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.

CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.

HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.