David McCullough Quote
The French dine to gratify, we to appease appetite, observed John Sanderson. We demolish dinner, they eat it. The general misconception back home was that French food was highly seasoned, but not at all, wrote James Fenimore Cooper. The genius in French cookery was in blending flavors and in arranging compounds in such a manner as to produce … the lightest and most agreeable food. The charm of a French dinner, like so much in French life, was the effect.
David McCullough
The French dine to gratify, we to appease appetite, observed John Sanderson. We demolish dinner, they eat it. The general misconception back home was that French food was highly seasoned, but not at all, wrote James Fenimore Cooper. The genius in French cookery was in blending flavors and in arranging compounds in such a manner as to produce … the lightest and most agreeable food. The charm of a French dinner, like so much in French life, was the effect.
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About David McCullough
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, McCullough earned a degree in English literature from Yale University. His first book was The Johnstown Flood (1968), and he wrote nine more on such topics as Harry S. Truman, John Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Panama Canal, and the Wright brothers. McCullough also narrated numerous documentaries, such as The Civil War by Ken Burns, as well as the 2003 film Seabiscuit, and he hosted the PBS television documentary series American Experience for twelve years.
McCullough's two Pulitzer Prize-winning books—Truman and John Adams—were adapted by HBO into a TV film and a miniseries, respectively.