Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library.… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
There are times when born hollandaise heads, as well as nouveaux turbot freaks and recherche escargotphiles alike crave the saignet abundance of… — Gael Greene Copy Share Image
The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth… — Emmanuel des Essarts Copy Share Image
Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin 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
There are two kinds of people in this world: the ones who don't cook out of and have NEVER cooked out of… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about! — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
I went to this restaurant last night that was set up like a big buffet in the shape of an Ouija board.… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Mexican food is one of the best culinary experiences that people can have. — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Marmalade in the morning has the same effect on taste buds that a cold shower has on the body. — Jeanine Larmoth Copy Share Image
WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
