Culinary Quotes · Page 11

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

— Julia Child

This stuff tastes awful; I could have made a fortune selling it in my health-food store.

— Woody Allen

I like a Blackpool breakfast, me - 20 ciggies and a pot of tea.

— Paul O'Grady

She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

— Juvenal

The first of all considerations is that our meals shall be fun as well as fuel.

— Andre Simon

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

— Ambrose Bierce

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

— Andrei Codrescu

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

— Benjamin Franklin

You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

As I finished up my time at Duke, I certainly wasn't a 'foodie' but I was learning to enjoy the finer things…

— J. J. Redick

WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to…

— Ambrose Bierce

My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and…

— George Washington

When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.

— Andre Soltner

Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!

— Tom Jones

The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth…

— Emmanuel des Essarts

The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float…are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.

— Mark Kurlansky

Next," said Mrs Wilfer with a wave of her gloves, expressive of abdication under protest from the culinary throne, "I would recommend…

— Charles Dickens

Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before…

— Carson McCullers

Abstain from beans. There be sundry interpretations of this symbol. But Plutarch and Cicero think beans to be forbidden of Pythagoras, because…

— Richard Taverner

Here is a kitchen improvement, in return for Peacock. For roasting or basting a chicken, render down your fat or butter with…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and…

— Charles Dickens

So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the…

— Alton Brown

No dish changes quite so much from season to season as soup. Summer's soups come chilled, in pastel colors strewn with herbs.…

— Florence Fabricant

Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen…

— Alfred Jarry

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

— Ambrose Bierce

The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat

— Frank Muir

In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.

— Curnonsky

Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?

— Marilyn Monroe

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

— Sinclair Lewis

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

— Katherine Mansfield

And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.

— George Carlin

My culinary wardrobe is the same as my biking wardrobe, just no shoes.

— Lela Rose

The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.

— Bruce Jay Friedman

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

— Diogenes

The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

— Victor Hugo

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

— Samuel Johnson

Ethnic, cultural, artistic and culinary diversity. LA...a feast for the senses.

— Yasmine Bleeth

PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

— Ambrose Bierce

I don't come from any great culinary tradition - I'm from London!

— Arthur Potts Dawson

Bring me an order of escargots, but hold the slugs.

— Orson Bean