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
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
If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts. — Martial Copy Share Image
If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup. — Louis Diat Copy Share Image
Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil,… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
There is no way to understand the public reaction to the sight of a Freak smashing a coconut with a hammer on… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities.… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book . . . The recipes were to be the routine ones: how… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests of the… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to… — Nathan Myhrvold 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
Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat. — Henry Austin Dobson Copy Share Image
A soup so thick you could shake its hand and stroll with it before dinner. — Robert Crawford Copy Share Image
“A culinary triumph: the ingenious use of food as an offensive weapon.” — James Hamilton-Paterson Copy Share Image
Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Squirrel was a thing people ate where I lived. It was part of the culinary lexicon. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie. — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
