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
I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked… — Elizabeth McCracken 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
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
She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight. — Juvenal 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat — Frank Muir 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
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
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
