Culinary Quotes · Page 14

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

— Andrei Codrescu

The first of all considerations is that our meals shall be fun as well as fuel.

— Andre Simon

She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

— Juvenal

I like a Blackpool breakfast, me - 20 ciggies and a pot of tea.

— Paul O'Grady

Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.

— Nicole Hollander

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

— Julia Child

This stuff tastes awful; I could have made a fortune selling it in my health-food store.

— Woody Allen

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

— Alexander Fleming

“Nothing mitigates the throes of depression like a steaming plate of spaghetti and meatballs with marinara sauce and grated parmasan cheese, with…

— Paul Clayton

There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you.

— William Shakespeare

Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The…

— Craig Claiborne

Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.

— Pliny the Elder

A Bearnaise sauce is simply an egg yolk, a shallot, a little tarragon vinegar, and butter, but it takes years of practice…

— Fernand Point

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has…

— George Bernard Shaw

A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends…

— Benjamin Disraeli

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to…

— A. E. Housman

It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and…

— Charlie Day

An understanding of what food is and how cooking works does no violence to the art of cuisine, destroys no delightful mystery.…

— Harold McGee

All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini…

— H. L. Mencken

For 'Around the World in 80 Plates' we got to travel all over, having what was like a cross between a culinary…

— Curtis Stone

The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the…

— Russell Baker

I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted…

— Anonymous

It's born of sheer laziness. My signature dishes are salads, hamburgers and popcorn. That's not the kind of stuff that gets you…

— Paul Newman

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

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.

— Bert Greene

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

— Jeff Smith

The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament.

— Monica Baldwin

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

— Henrik Ibsen

The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

— Joseph Addison

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

— Epictetus

I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.

— Action Bronson

Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.

— Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.

— Isabella Beeton

Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.

— Andy Rooney

The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker.

— Pablo Neruda

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.

— Ruth Reichl

Some people kiss as if they were eating watermelon

— Saadat Hasan Manto