Culinary Quotes · Page 12

I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities.

— Euripides

A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.

— Lawrence Durrell

Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.

— Alexis Soyer

No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.

— Eden Phillpotts

“hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling...”

— Herman Melville

Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?

— Paul Claudel

Salt is white and pure - there is something holy in salt.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.

— John Dryden

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb…

— Frederick Marryat

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes…

— Rudyard Kipling

Food: Part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories.

— Beverley Baxter

Braising eggs in a flavoursome, aromatic sauce is all the rage. It is warming and comforting, ideal for the morning when you…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine,…

— Oscar Wilde

He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had…

— Ford Madox Ford

If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over…

— Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these,…

— M. F. K. Fisher

But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh! sweet friends, hearken to me. It was made of…

— Herman Melville

A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent…

— Melissa Fay Greene

I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I,…

— Anonymous

I didn't realize I was living in a very unique situation until I became a culinary professional. For me, there was nothing…

— Marcela Valladolid

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt…

— Berkeley Breathed

A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it,…

— M. F. K. Fisher

For a while I thought I would work in museums, so my first job after college was an internship at the 9/11…

— Claire Saffitz

If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep…

— James Hogg

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

— Socrates

It's food too fine for angels, yet come, take and eat thy fill!

— Edward Taylor

It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.

— Robert Hughes

I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

— Mark Twain

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

— Henry Miller

If you're given champagne at lunch, there's a catch somewhere.

— 1st Viscount Lyons Richard Lyons

Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.

— Samuel Johnson

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

— George Eliot

I'm a hedonist when it comes to culinary delights.

— Robin Wright

In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

— John Milton

When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore.

— Diane Mott Davidson

I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

— George Saintsbury

There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.

— Leo Buscaglia

I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff.

— Prince Philip

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

— Ambrose Bierce