Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
It's important to watch what you eat. Otherwise, how are you going to get it into your mouth ? — Matthew Diamond Copy Share Image
To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking. — Clement Freud Copy Share Image
When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New… — Gail Simmons Copy Share Image
Even just a few spices or ethnic condiments that you can keep in your pantry can turn your mundane dishes into a… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements. — Marcel Boulestin Copy Share Image
I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book . . . The recipes were to be the routine ones: how… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
What is a turducken? An exclusive culinary creation available by special order from some little Cajun town down south. Entirely deboned, a… — S.A. Bodeen Copy Share Image
At Babbo, each dish grew out of a conversation, trying to put something forth that was new and different. It was a… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Hell is probably quite similar to most Paris bistros ... a bit overheated, somewhat too crowded, and a little too noisy for… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all. — William Penn Copy Share Image
But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard. — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
“What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money. — Jay Rayner Copy Share Image
“Craving is a good thing.In matters of culinary art, craving creates wonders.” — Andy Paula Copy Share Image
So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks. — Auguste Escoffier Copy Share Image
It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs. — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
