On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
The right food always comes at the right time. Reliance on out-of-season foods makes the gastronomic year an endlessly boring repetition. — Roy Andries De Groot Copy Share Image
If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare… — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share Image
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
I like to say, Chop sueys the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another, because chop suey, if… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
Be careful not to be the first to put your hands in the dish. What you cannot hold in your hands you… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
“THANKSGIVING DAY. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
While we Brits love a curry, the French get their spicy kicks from the culinary traditions bestowed by their North African population. — Rachel Khoo Copy Share Image
When you're eating something and your palate tells you what's missing, that's when you start combining. — Justin Quek Copy Share Image
First, knife skills. Then, knowing how to control heat. Most important is choosing the right product .. the rest is simple. — Justin Quek Copy Share Image
We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator… — Euell Gibbons Copy Share Image
And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and light and… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have no truck with lettuce, cabbage, and similar chlorophyll. Any dietitian will tell you that a running foot of apple strudel… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is… — John Haines Copy Share Image
One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food — Edna Lewis Copy Share Image
My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' You can't take it seriously. But you can't ignore it, either. It takes ahold of your head… — Harrison Salisbury Copy Share Image
The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
'MasterChef' is the search for America's culinary amateur talent, so this is a search for the best home cook in America, and… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not,… — Ted Allen Copy Share Image
I’m awfully sorry for people who are taken in by all of today’s dietary mumbo jumbo. They are not getting any enjoyment… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen, that's how I know anything about cooking. I've always wanted to go to… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
While some people may think being a chef only entails making enticing dishes and pushing the culinary boundaries, being a part of… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
