I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast. — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore. — Diane Mott Davidson Copy Share Image
In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death. — John Milton Copy Share Image
When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the… — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
I'd say that my identity is really a culinary identity, so the way I relate to my national heritage is through its… — Princess Tatiana of Greece and Denmark Copy Share Image
“Have you ever been faced with the clear certainty that the culinary arts have a great propensity to rendering themselves unsavory?” — Nicole Sager Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host'… — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
Coffee: we can get it anywhere, and get as loaded as we like on it, until such teeth-chattering, eye-bulging, nonsense-gibbering time as… — Joan Frank Copy Share Image
On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed… — Masaharu Morimoto Copy Share Image
The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
My son would walk to the refrigerator-freezer and fling both doors open and stand there until the hairs in his nose iced… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The roe of the Russian sturgeon has probably been present at more important international affairs than have all the Russian dignitaries of… — James Beard Copy Share Image
If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
I like to say, Chop sueys the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another, because chop suey, if… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said -… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Grilling, broiling, barbecuing - whatever you want to call it - is an art, not just a matter of building a pyre… — James Beard Copy Share Image
I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit. — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you… — John Gould Copy Share Image
As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Give a man food, and he can eat for a day. Give a man a job, and he can only eat for… — Lev L. Spiro Copy Share Image
How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and roses clambering… — Rosemary Verey Copy Share Image
Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power… — Marcel Boulestin Copy Share Image
Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and light and… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator… — Euell Gibbons Copy Share Image
