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
Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“Crushes weren’t made of quick and dirty; they were made of romance and fantasies. What would she do if he called her… — Amanda Usen Copy Share Image
The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn't mean I… — Carla Hall Copy Share Image
“Building and supporting these local economies is critical to our bottom line. As repeatedly proven by Building Alliances for Local Living Economies… — Richard W. Jelier Ph.D Copy Share Image
I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin 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
An understanding of what food is and how cooking works does no violence to the art of cuisine, destroys no delightful mystery.… — Harold McGee 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
The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn. — David Aaron Kessler Copy Share Image
EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s. — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African-American, so I had a pretty diverse culinary background to… — Ayesha Curry Copy Share Image
I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions. — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy… — Jeffrey Steingarten Copy Share Image
