![]() ![]() ![]() James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. The floor was soggy under his knees, the walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. “The tunnel was damp and murky, and all around him there was the curious bittersweet smell of fresh peach. Stew for another week, and then let the moon do the rest!'” ‘One thousand long slimy crocodile tongues boiled up in the skull of a dead witch for twenty days and nights with the eyeballs of a lizard! Add the fingers of a young monkey, the gizzard of a pig, the beak of a green parrot, the juice of a porcupine, and three spoonfuls of sugar. This diet gave him a tummy-ache and a beastly temper.” He mashed the livers into a disgusting paste and then stuffed the paste into the doughnuts. He was so short his chin would have been under water in the shallow end of any swimming-pool in the world. ‘That’s because it’s been mixed by waterfall,’ Mr Wonka told him.” ‘The creamiest loveliest chocolate I’ve ever tasted!’ said Grandpa Joe, smacking his lips. “Charlie put the mug to his lips, and as the rich warm creamy chocolate ran down his throat into his empty tummy, his whole body from head to toe began to tingle with pleasure, and a feeling of intense happiness spread over him. All the most wonderful smells in the world seemed to be mixed up in the air around them - the smell of roasting coffee and burnt sugar and melting chocolate and mint and violets and crushed hazelnuts and apple blossom and caramel and lemon peel.” “What a marvellous smell!’ answered Grandpa Joe, taking a long deep sniff. ‘It’s a new kind,’ Mrs Twit said, taking a mouthful from her own plate which of course had no worms. ‘Hey, my spaghetti’s moving!’ cried Mr Twit, poking around in it with his fork. The worms didn’t show because everything was covered with tomato sauce and sprinkled with cheese. “At one o’clock, she cooked spaghetti for lunch and she mixed the worms in with the spaghetti, but only on her husband’s plate. ‘If I tell you to eat, you will eat! You wanted cake! You stole cake! And now you’ve got cake! What’s more, you’re going to eat it! You do not leave this platform and nobody leaves this hall until you have eaten the entire cake that is sitting there in front of you! Do I make myself clear, Bogtrotter? Do you get my meaning?'” “‘Eat!’ she shouted, banging her thigh with the riding-crop. “Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.” “Whipped cream isn’t whipped cream at all if it hasn’t been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn’t poached eggs unless it’s been stolen in the dead of the night.” “Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!” Here are just a few foodie-inspired quotes from Dahl’s works, including a video featuring Dahl sharing his love of chocolate. According to, the young food-obsessed author would host chocolate tastings with his boyhood friends. Dahl’s personal favorites were tame by comparison: chocolate and caviar. Roald Dahl’s Revolting Recipes and other cookbooks detail the recipes for Dahl’s fictional cuisine such as the Bogtrotter cake in Matilda and the snozzcumber in The BFG. A passion for food springs forth from the pages of Dahl’s bibliography, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to James and the Giant Peach - delicious and disgusting gastronomical delights. There’s no mistaking the late British novelist’s love of cuisine. Happy birthday wishes to Roald Dahl, the great children’s author, former fighter pilot, and foodie. ![]()
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