CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
At Babbo, each dish grew out of a conversation, trying to put something forth that was new and different. It was a… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
My culinary skills are terrible. I can't even make toast taste good. I do make scrambled eggs for myself sometimes but I… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles. — Henry Beard Copy Share Image
The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It… — Athenaeus Copy Share Image
Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
When I'm asked to define "Southern food," I usually turn that question back to my audience and ask them what they think.… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,'… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and light and… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these,… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
