The kitchen, reasonably enough, was the scene of my first gastronomic adventure. I was on all fours. I crawled into the vegetable… — James Beard Copy Share Image
A number of rare or newly experienced foods have been claimed to be aphrodisiacs. At one time this quality was even ascribed… — Jane Grigson Copy Share Image
Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you… — John Gould Copy Share Image
If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest chefs in the world aren't classically trained. Thomas Keller - probably the greatest American chef ever to walk… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition,… — John Thorne Copy Share Image
Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative… — Waverley Root Copy Share Image
Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
“I asked Bill what career path he thought I should take, and he replied, “Live the artist’s life.” For years I pondered… — Mallory M. O'Connor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We wanted to make a show that not only highlights the adventure of hunting, but also the fantastic culinary opportunities that a… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
First,” he said, coming behind me and placing his hands on the counter, just outside of mine, “choose your tomato.” He dipped… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Scotch Whisky is about the only thing left that is guaranteed to bring comfort to mankind. — Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby Copy Share Image
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs. — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself. — George Ellwanger Copy Share Image
When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore. — Diane Mott Davidson Copy Share Image
After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers. — Emily Luchetti Copy Share Image
Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of… — Jonathan Aitken Copy Share Image
A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe — Mary-Kate Olsen Copy Share Image
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible. — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure… — Giada De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent… — Melissa Fay Greene Copy Share Image
I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner,… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic. — Ambrose Bierce 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
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