We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
One of the many advantages of having a boyfriend who is half French is that his culinary repertoire extends beyond mac and… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.' — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
There are times when born hollandaise heads, as well as nouveaux turbot freaks and recherche escargotphiles alike crave the saignet abundance of… — Gael Greene Copy Share Image
There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare… — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share Image
Although the frankfurter originated in Frankfurt, Germany, we have long since made it our own, a twin pillar of democracy along with… — William Zinsser 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
In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes… — Bob Blumer Copy Share Image
Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I fell in love with food because of my mother. So, I will definitely be sharing and expanding more recipes from my… — Wolfgang Puck Copy Share Image
I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Approaching the stove, she would don a voluminous apron, toss some meat on a platter, empty a skillet of its perfectly cooked… — Bert Greene Copy Share Image
Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
The right food always comes at the right time. Reliance on out-of-season foods makes the gastronomic year an endlessly boring repetition. — Roy Andries De Groot Copy Share Image
If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry. — Robert A. Heinlein 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
My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African-American, so I had a pretty diverse culinary background to… — Ayesha Curry Copy Share Image
I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find. — James Beard Copy Share Image
There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition… — Rex Stout 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
Shows like 'Top Chef,' 'Hell's Kitchen' have helped bring attention to the culinary world on a whole, but you have to be… — Geoffrey Zakarian Copy Share Image
I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the… — Paige VanZant Copy Share Image
But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday… — Lord Byron 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
Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The pressure, the heat, the almost impossibly fast pace at which you need work - this is the reality of working in… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It doesn't take money to have style, it just takes a really good eye. Sometimes you can find amazing culinary antiques that… — Tyler Florence Copy Share Image
We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image