“thou art damned like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.” William Shakespeare.

The Old Foodie: There is reason in roasting eggs.

“Boswell added a footnote to his journal entry of the day, relating one of Johnson’s anecdotes:

“ … My definition of man is, ‘a Cooking Animal’. The beasts have memory, judgment and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook….”