CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill. — Paul Bocuse Copy Share Image
Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much. — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
Every time I baked cookies for people as a kid, it made me so happy. But when I was in culinary school… — Christina Tosi Copy Share Image
So you can settle the fuck down. My mother used to say, "Primero comemos, entonces lo demás." That means, "first we eat,… — Brian Yorkey 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
I started waiting tables in college and realized how much I loved the business and loved to cook. I decided to go… — Anne Burrell Copy Share Image
An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it. — Oliver Herford Copy Share Image
Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere… — Sandra Boynton Copy Share Image
A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty… — Willard Spiegelman Copy Share Image
How simple life is. We buy a fish. We are fed. We sit close to each other, we talk and then we… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -… — John Keats Copy Share Image
It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e.,… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all… — Giada De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
In each restaurant, I develop a different culinary sensibility. In Paris, I'm more classic, because that's what customers like. In Monaco, it's… — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
In the Barbecue is any four footed animal -- be it mouse or mastodon -- whose dressed carcass is roasted whole... at… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
Chicago is a world-class culinary center. We need to guard that reputation and status. — Danny K. Davis Copy Share Image
Mexican food is one of the best culinary experiences that people can have. — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
