Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie. — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. — Thomas Keller Copy Share Image
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best. — Waverley Root 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
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
If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup. — Louis Diat 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
If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils… — Roald Dahl 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
The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes… — Rudyard Kipling 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
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
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
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
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
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
The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure… — Giada De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one. — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school. — Flavor Flav Copy Share Image
Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
More people will die from hit-or-miss eating than from hit-and-run driving. — Duncan Hines Copy Share Image
I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school. — Tom Douglas Copy Share Image
Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all. — William Penn 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
