Culinary Quotes · Page 10

Nothing stimulates the practiced cook's imagination like an egg.

— Irma S. Rombauer

It is contrary to the will of God to eat delicate food hastily.

— Zhang Zhao

How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini?

— Noel Coward

Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?

— Frank Bruni

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

— Julia Child

Marmalade in the morning has the same effect on taste buds that a cold shower has on the body.

— Jeanine Larmoth

Velveeta: you can eat it - or wax your car with it!

— Judy Garland

A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

— Clifton Fadiman

“Unease stole through her, and she shivered. Now that the moment had arrived, she was nervous. Damn it, this never happens in…

— Amanda Usen

I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you're hungry for…

— Dick Cavett

I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already…

— Robert Orben

In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous.

— Jane Grigson

I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked…

— Elizabeth McCracken

Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.

— Richard Harris Barham

Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue -- it drives away…

— Frederic Mistral

The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.

— Margaret Halsey

The time will come when this luscious golden tomato, rich in nutrition, a delight to the eye, a joy to the palate…

— Robert Johnson

When you have a chef that wants to be in the spotlight, maybe after one or two appearances on a show, they…

— Geoffrey Zakarian

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

One summer, when I was on break from architecture school in Tijuana, my aunt gave me a summer job cleaning up and…

— Marcela Valladolid

I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of…

— Robert Burns

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

The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch…

— Marlene Dietrich

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

An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

— Oscar Wilde

I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.

— John Evelyn

All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.

— Hugh Casson

The worst drug of today is not smack or pot - it's refined sugar.

— George Hamilton

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

— Lin Yutang

The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.

— Robin Williams

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

— George Bernard Shaw

One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.

— Thomas Keller

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I used to take culinary arts at Job Corps so I'm a certified chef. I could cook chicken alfredo.

— Gorilla Zoe

In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.

— Fernand Point

Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.

— Bert Greene

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

— Miguel de Cervantes

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

— Alexander Fleming

Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.

— Nicole Hollander