Tag Archives: A. J. Liebling

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down. A. J. Liebling

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels. A. J. Liebling

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass. A. J. Liebling

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane. A. J. Liebling

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris. …

Continue reading "To the Parisians, and especially to the..."

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young. A. J. Liebling

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department. A. J. Liebling

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows. A. J. …

Continue reading "Southern political personalities, like sweet..."

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total. A. J. Liebling

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor. A. J. Liebling