Culinary Quotes · Page 13

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

— Umberto Eco

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

— Ambrose Bierce

HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

— Ambrose Bierce

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

— George Bernard Shaw

Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing.

— James Thurber

Bring me an order of escargots, but hold the slugs.

— Orson Bean

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

— Samuel Johnson

It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings…

— Virginia Woolf

Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to…

— Julia Child

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

The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet…

— Bill Gates

A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.

— Ogden Nash

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly…

— Anthony Trollope

Classic Recipe for Roast Beef: 1 large Roast of beef 1 small Roast of beef Take the two roasts and put them…

— Gracie Allen

The way I feel about it is: Beat me or feed me, but don't tease me. It's toy food; who needs it?…

— Jeff Smith

A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it,…

— M. F. K. Fisher

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt…

— Berkeley Breathed

If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep…

— James Hogg

This [the movie Babe] is the way Americans want to think of pigs. Real-life 'Babes' see no sun in their limited lives,…

— Morley Safer

For a while I thought I would work in museums, so my first job after college was an internship at the 9/11…

— Claire Saffitz

Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and…

— Alan King

All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed…

— Charles Dickens

Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures…

— Bill Griffith

The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

— Victor Hugo

PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

— Ambrose Bierce

I don't come from any great culinary tradition - I'm from London!

— Arthur Potts Dawson

Ethnic, cultural, artistic and culinary diversity. LA...a feast for the senses.

— Yasmine Bleeth

My culinary wardrobe is the same as my biking wardrobe, just no shoes.

— Lela Rose

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

— Diogenes

The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.

— Bruce Jay Friedman

And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.

— George Carlin

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

— Katherine Mansfield

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

— Sinclair Lewis

Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?

— Marilyn Monroe

In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.

— Curnonsky

The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat

— Frank Muir

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

— Benjamin Franklin

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

— Ambrose Bierce

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

— Ambrose Bierce