IVIV (8): The Way to His Heart

[Dave Monroe]

   "Sauncho was a devoted viewer of the daytime drama The Way to His
Heart." (IV, Ch. 8, p. 118)


"The Way to His Heart"

WAY TO A MAN'S HEART IS THROUGH HIS STOMACH, THE - "The evolution of
this saying appears to be almost as indirect as the route to a man's
heart. The American statesman John Adams wrote in a letter (1814),
'The shortest road to men's hearts is down their throats,' and some
years later Richard Ford's 'A Handbook for Travellers in Spain' (1845)
advised, 'The way to many an honest heart lies through the belly.' A
few years later, Miss Mulock observed in 'John Halifax, Gentleman'
(1857) that the stomach was the way to an Englishman's heart. Fifteen
years after that, the writer Fanny Fern broadened the idea to include
all men in 'Willis Parton' (c. 1872), rendering the saying in its
current form." From "Wise Words and Wives' Tales: The Origins,
Meanings and Time-Honored Wisdom of Proverbs and Folk Sayings Olde and
New" by Stuart Flexner and Doris Flexner (Avon Books, New York, 1993).

http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/24/messages/1003.html

The shortest road to men's hearts is down their throats. [1814 J.
Adams Letter 15 Apr. in Works (1851) VI. 505]

The way to many an honest heart lies through the belly. [1845 R. Ford
Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain i. i.]

‘Christmas dinners will be much in request.’ ‘There's a saying that
the way to an Englishman's heart is through his stomach.’ {[1857 D. M.
Mulock John Halifax, Gentleman xxx.]

The way to a man's heart wasn't through his stomach, it was through an
appreciation of what interested him. [1975 A. Price Our Man in Camelot
v.]

What she meant was in a home she could bake things and make meals for
him. ‥The way to man's heart is through his stomach. {1986 J. W. Rider
Jersey Tomatoes xv.]

‘And remember ladies—the way to a man's heart is through his stomach.’
‘Unfortunately, you have to get it past his gag reflex first.’ [2001
Washington Post 6 Jan. C11 (Piranha Club comic strip)]

http://www.answers.com/topic/the-way-to-a-man-s-heart-is-through-his-stomach


Tabasco

http://www.tabasco.com/

Tabasco sauce is a mass produced brand of hot sauce made from tabasco
peppers (Capsicum frutescens var. tabasco), vinegar, and salt, and
aged in white oak barrels for three years. It has a hot, spicy flavor
and is popular in many parts of the world.

Tabasco is trademarked as the brand name for the variety of pepper
sauce marketed by one of the United States' biggest producers of hot
sauce, McIlhenny Company of Avery Island, Louisiana. While there are
many other kinds on the market, Tabasco is the most famous brand of
"hot pepper sauce." Although it is produced in the United States, it
acquired its name from the state of Tabasco in Mexico. McIlhenny
Company is now in its fifth generation as a family-run business. All
of the 145 shareholders either inherited their stock or were given it
from another living family member....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabasco_sauce


"culinary scores yet to be settled"

The Food Network

http://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/index.html

Collins, Kathleen.  Watching What We Eat:
   The Evolution of Television Cooking Shows.
   New York: Continnum, 2009.

http://www.watchingwhatweeat.com/
http://www.watchingwhatweeat.com/book/
http://www.watchingwhatweeat.com/excerpt/
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