Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Cooking is so popular today because it's the perfect mix of food and fun. — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles. — Henry Beard Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power… — Marcel Boulestin 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
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
Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Grilling, broiling, barbecuing - whatever you want to call it - is an art, not just a matter of building a pyre… — James Beard Copy Share Image
The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on. — Mario Batali 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
The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Next," said Mrs Wilfer with a wave of her gloves, expressive of abdication under protest from the culinary throne, "I would recommend… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
One summer, when I was on break from architecture school in Tijuana, my aunt gave me a summer job cleaning up and… — Marcela Valladolid Copy Share Image
The soufflé is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both… — Irma S. Rombauer Copy Share Image
When you have a chef that wants to be in the spotlight, maybe after one or two appearances on a show, they… — Geoffrey Zakarian Copy Share Image
POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In America, even your menus have the gift of language… The Chef's own Vienna Roast. A hearty, rich meat loaf, gently seasoned… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
I've long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would… — James Beard Copy Share Image
If you could choose to master a single ingredient, no choice would teach you more about cooking than the egg. It is… — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share Image
A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
...the act of eating,which hath by several wise men been considered as extremely mean and derogatory from the philosophic dignity, must be… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
