Diva Cooking 101

Divas cook gorgeous things that are fabulous enough to share with friends and family. They just don't cook much. Every diva needs a few, easy signature dishes to get by. Are you a diva cook?

Divas cook while listening to Billie Holiday, Muddy Waters, or the Rolling Stones.

Divas cook while sipping Champagne, Chardonnay, or a martini.

Divas cook with a feather boa draped around their shoulders.

While cooking, divas nibble gin-soaked olives or Champagne-saturated strawberries.

Divas cook while wearing an apron that says, "Tomorrow is another Chardonnay."

A diva's favorite breakfast is last night's appetizers.

Divas don't stress over particular amounts in any recipe. Glugs, plops, and handfuls are accurate enough.

Divas can cook with boas because diva recipes do not require many steps. Still, the food is fabulous.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Chardonnay Queen's Favorite Wine Quotes

What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch? ~ W. C. Fields

Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it. ~ Anonymous

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world. ~ Ernest Hemingway

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance. ~ Benjamin Franklin

I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half of wine each day and even treble it with a friend. ~ Thomas Jefferson

I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens. ~ Thomas Jefferson

If your heart is warm with happiness, you'll need a glass - if sorrow chills your heart, have two! ~ Hannu Lehmusvuori

Remember gentlemen, it's not just France we are fighting for, its Champagne!
~Winston Churchill

Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. ~ Andre Simon, "Commonsense of Wine"

Reality is an illusion that occurs due to a lack of wine. ~ Anonymous

During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days. ~W. C. Fields

Good wine is a necessity of life for me. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Alcohol, if taken in sufficient quantities, can give one the illusion of drunkenness.
~Oscar Wilde

Consuming wine in moderation daily will help people to die young as late as possible. ~ Dr Philip Norrie

Wine is the thinking person's health drink. ~Dr. Phillip Norrie

Three are the things I shall never attain--Envy, content and sufficient champagne.
~Dorothy Parker

If a life of wine, women and song becomes too much, give up the singing.
~ Anonymous

This is one of the disadvantages of wine; it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. ~Samuel Johnson

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right. ~Mark Twain

I have enjoyed great health at a great age because everyday since I can remember I have consumed a bottle of wine except when I have not felt well. Then I have consumed two bottles. ~ A Bishop of Seville

Plant no tree sooner than the vine. ~Alcaeus, 580 BC

I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food. ~ W.C. Fields

You haven't drunk too much wine if you can still lie on the floor without holding on. ~ Dean Martin

No one that has drunk old wine wants new; for he says, "The old is nice." ~ Luke 5:39

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. ~ Louis Pasteur

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good? ~ Cardinal Richeleu

What is better than to sit at the table at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends? ~ James Joyce

Wine is bottled poetry. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength. ~ Homer, The IliadIn water one sees one's own face;
But in wine one beholds the heart of another. ~ French proverb

May our love be like good wine, grow stronger as it grows older. ~ Old English Toast

Eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart. ~ Ecclesiastes 9:7

The wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Just nineteen years short of Methuselah. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long. ~Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Where there is no wine there is no love. ~ Euripides

To us and people just like us! ~a Killington, VT toast

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