Out of Africa

by Karen Blixen

"The Prince of Wales did me the great honour to come and dine at the farm, and to compliment me on a Cumberland sauce. This is the only time that I have seen Kamante listening with deep interest as I repeated the praise of his cooking to him..." pg. 4

"...they asked me eagerly: 'Have you taught your cook to make omelette a la chasseur? - and have the gramophone records from Petrouchkaarrived by the last mail?'"

"Our bottles of beer when they first arrived with us, straight out of the ether, were pleasantly cold, but before we had finished them, in a quarter of an hour, they became as hot as a cup of tea." pg. 206

"Berkeley Cole, who generally kept the house in wine, some time ago had sent me a case of very rare burgundy, and I now told Juma to opena bottle from it." pg. 173

"When I had a few bottles of Danish beer hidden in the depths of Lottenburg, and invited him to drink there, he condescended to think it a good joke." pg. 166

"The great tricks and tours-de-force of the kitchen were child's play to his dark crooked hands; they knew on their own everything about omelettes, vol-au-vents, sauces, and mayonnaises." pg. 41

"I made him up a parcel of sandwiches and hard-boiled eggs, and gave him with it a bottle of Chambertin 1906 since he seemed to appreciate it." pg.176