Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one. — William Penn Copy Share Image
I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
“I'm not a purist. Coffee drinking minus cream and sugar is an acquired taste. I'm still not sure it isn't like telling… — Kevin Sinnott Copy Share Image
Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs. — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
Even now, when I do a slide show of the Geek Squad story, the first slide is a photo of ramen noodles.… — Robert Stephens Copy Share Image
A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty… — Willard Spiegelman Copy Share Image
If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup. — Louis Diat Copy Share Image
How simple life is. We buy a fish. We are fed. We sit close to each other, we talk and then we… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts. — Martial Copy Share Image
Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil,… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests of the… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
And then you bit onto them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life...but 1932 the… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Cooks are in some ways very much like actors; they must be fit and strong, since acting and cooking are two of… — Andre Simon Copy Share Image
Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat. — Henry Austin Dobson Copy Share Image
To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
Mexican food is one of the best culinary experiences that people can have. — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
Chicago is a world-class culinary center. We need to guard that reputation and status. — Danny K. Davis Copy Share Image
Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Squirrel was a thing people ate where I lived. It was part of the culinary lexicon. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
A soup so thick you could shake its hand and stroll with it before dinner. — Robert Crawford Copy Share Image
