A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Abstain from beans. There be sundry interpretations of this symbol. But Plutarch and Cicero think beans to be forbidden of Pythagoras, because… — Richard Taverner Copy Share Image
Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
Any part of the piggy Is quite all right with me Ham from Westphalia, ham from Parma Ham as lean as the… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Bread is a staple article of diet in theory, rather than in practice. There are few who are truly fond of bread… — William Alcott Copy Share Image
There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
What is a turducken? An exclusive culinary creation available by special order from some little Cajun town down south. Entirely deboned, a… — S.A. Bodeen Copy Share Image
A carbonated wine foisted upon Americans (who else would drink it?) by winery ad agencies as a way of getting rid of… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food. — Hugh Casson Copy Share Image
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his… — Waverley Root Copy Share Image
The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet… — Jane Grigson Copy Share Image
