Joseph Mitchell Quotes

It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.

For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.

Calamari isn't too bad. That's what I thought cuttlefish was gonna be that. I've eaten octopus and eel and shark and sea urchin before, and - and those are good.

I'm into having a good time and showing people you can have fun. Because for a long time, the West Coast, it wasn't about having fun. It was about gang banging; it just wasn't fun no more. So now I'm bringing fun back.

Tender and sweet, Manila clams partner well with a wide variety of foods - white wine, sake, beer, butter, leeks, fresh herbs, roasted peppers, olives, and wild mushrooms, to name a few.

If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.

Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing.

New England oysters are better than Chesapeake. But Chesapeake blue crabs are unbeatable.

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.

I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce or in beer with paprika.

Littlenecks and cherrystones are chewy and sweet on the half shell with mignonette, served raw. But a well-cooked clam is a toothsome, tender thing, full of that magical stuff known as clam liquor.

Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't take an awful lot to unleash it.

Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead.

The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.

I've actually always been a big fan of seafood. Sushi is one my favorite things.

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Seafood was always my favorite food. I mean, fried lobster? Come on. Once I found out shrimp, scallops and lobster were my allergic triggers, I had to change my diet.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

I'm not a big oyster eater. But I know people who will sit at a raw bar and eat oyster for two hours.

I love stone crabs. And I love popcorn.

Sleep is a regenerative process where we heal and where our neurons build strong connections. It's like a fountain of youth that we dive into every night.

I like seafood like prawns and fish - I can live on prawns!

It's hard to imagine a time when lobster pots weren't part of a well-equipped kitchen, but America's love affair with the two-clawed crustaceans didn't start until the 1800s.

Being around the young people makes me feel younger, like I'm 25 again.