Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Give a man food, and he can eat for a day. Give a man a job, and he can only eat for… — Lev L. Spiro Copy Share Image
I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but… — Fannie Farmer Copy Share Image
Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
The worst day is just that I did not enter the culinary world sooner. And the best day was seeing the reaction… — Geoffrey Zakarian Copy Share Image
The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Here's a thought: what if we ban the word 'healthy food' from our culinary vocabulary? I'm not talking about banning foods that… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. — Elizabeth Robins Pennell Copy Share Image
Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Food: Part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories. — Beverley Baxter Copy Share Image
Eating at a new, highly recommended restaurant is like a Very Important Blind Date, a contract with uncertainty you enter into with… — Stuart Stevens Copy Share Image
One should never refuse an invitation to lunch or dinner, for one never knows what one may have to eat the next… — Edouard de Pomiane Copy Share Image
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
Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life...but 1932 the… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy. — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
