To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I don't like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo… — Pearl Bailey Copy Share Image
It doesn't take money to have style, it just takes a really good eye. Sometimes you can find amazing culinary antiques that… — Tyler Florence Copy Share Image
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
For many a pasty have you robbed of blood, And many a Jack of Dover have you sold That has been heated… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
The confection made of Cacao called Chocolate or Chocoletto which may be had in diverse places in London, at reasonable rates, is… — William H. Coles Copy Share Image
After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The pressure, the heat, the almost impossibly fast pace at which you need work - this is the reality of working in… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Shows like 'Top Chef,' 'Hell's Kitchen' have helped bring attention to the culinary world on a whole, but you have to be… — Geoffrey Zakarian Copy Share Image
I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the… — Paige VanZant Copy Share Image
The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find. — James Beard Copy Share Image
I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African-American, so I had a pretty diverse culinary background to… — Ayesha Curry Copy Share Image
The right food always comes at the right time. Reliance on out-of-season foods makes the gastronomic year an endlessly boring repetition. — Roy Andries De Groot Copy Share Image
Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare… — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share Image
There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
There are times when born hollandaise heads, as well as nouveaux turbot freaks and recherche escargotphiles alike crave the saignet abundance of… — Gael Greene Copy Share Image
Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.' — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
