It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
A soup so thick you could shake its hand and stroll with it before dinner. — Robert Crawford Copy Share Image
Even now, when I do a slide show of the Geek Squad story, the first slide is a photo of ramen noodles.… — Robert Stephens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and roses clambering… — Rosemary Verey Copy Share Image
Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one. — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit. — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
No dish changes quite so much from season to season as soup. Summer's soups come chilled, in pastel colors strewn with herbs.… — Florence Fabricant Copy Share Image