Culinary Quotes · Page 14

Scotch Whisky is about the only thing left that is guaranteed to bring comfort to mankind.

— Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby

English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.

— Jay Rayner

“Craving is a good thing.In matters of culinary art, craving creates wonders.”

— Andy Paula

But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.

— Spike Milligan

Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.

— Diana Vreeland

“What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”

— Anonymous

A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.

— Thomas More

According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar,…

— John Gerard

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of…

— Kingsley Amis

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

— Joyce Brothers

I found most of my learning has taken place after culinary college, when I travelled and met chefs and non-chefs.

— Ranveer Brar

I went to this restaurant last night that was set up like a big buffet in the shape of an Ouija board.…

— Steven Wright

On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It…

— Athenaeus

The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.

— Redd Foxx

My culinary skills are terrible. I can't even make toast taste good. I do make scrambled eggs for myself sometimes but I…

— Drew Barrymore

Bread is a staple article of diet in theory, rather than in practice. There are few who are truly fond of bread…

— William Alcott

Although the frankfurter originated in Frankfurt, Germany, we have long since made it our own, a twin pillar of democracy along with…

— William Zinsser

The jelly - the jam and the marmalade, And the cherry-and quince-'preserves' she made! And the sweet-sour pickles of peach and pear,…

— James Whitcomb Riley

It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite... fun, but…

— Arne Garborg

Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship.…

— Rennie Ellis

If you want to know the people of a nation, I am sure you can judge a great deal more about them…

— Peter Kropotkin

Emeril is a one-in-a-million Renaissance man. In 2002, he established his foundation to support children's educational programs to inspire and mentor young…

— Robin Leach

Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and…

— Julie Powell

I've never gone to culinary school, but I do love cooking.

— Keshia Knight Pulliam

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

— William Penn

Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.

— Betty Ford

Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.

— Michael Pollan

I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!

— Anonymous

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

— George Bernard Shaw

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

— Ambrose Bierce

HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

— Ambrose Bierce

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

— Umberto Eco

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

— Janet Flanner

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

— George Eliot

Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.

— Samuel Johnson

I'm a hedonist when it comes to culinary delights.

— Robin Wright

If you're given champagne at lunch, there's a catch somewhere.

— 1st Viscount Lyons Richard Lyons

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

— Henry Miller