It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs. — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities. — Euripides Copy Share Image
So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks. — Auguste Escoffier Copy Share Image
It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs. — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
“I'm not a purist. Coffee drinking minus cream and sugar is an acquired taste. I'm still not sure it isn't like telling… — Kevin Sinnott Copy Share Image
Even now, when I do a slide show of the Geek Squad story, the first slide is a photo of ramen noodles.… — Robert Stephens Copy Share Image
Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet… — Robert P. T. Coffin Copy Share Image
People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Approaching the stove, she would don a voluminous apron, toss some meat on a platter, empty a skillet of its perfectly cooked… — Bert Greene Copy Share Image
I fell in love with food because of my mother. So, I will definitely be sharing and expanding more recipes from my… — Wolfgang Puck Copy Share Image
I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes… — Bob Blumer Copy Share Image
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. — Socrates Copy Share Image
No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart. — Eden Phillpotts Copy Share Image
When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
It's important to watch what you eat. Otherwise, how are you going to get it into your mouth ? — Matthew Diamond Copy Share Image
To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking. — Clement Freud Copy Share Image
A cook is creative, marrying ingredients in the way a poet marries words. — Roger Verge Copy Share Image