As with any large town or city, food and drink has played an important role in the commerce and culture of Birmingham, England.
Famous quotes containing the words food and, food and/or drink:
“Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and nappies.”
—Terence, Sir Conran (b. 1931)
“One farmer says to me, “You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;” and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Oh no, darling, you didn’t listen. Julian said she’d given up gin—for brandy. She says she can drink more brandy.”
—John Paxton (1911–1985)