The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute.… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
Seafood on the grill can be intimidating if you don't know what you are doing. It's really quite easy — Kevin Steele Copy Share Image
Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone… — George Ellwanger Copy Share Image
Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
An understanding of what food is and how cooking works does no violence to the art of cuisine, destroys no delightful mystery.… — Harold McGee Copy Share Image
All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures… — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and… — Alan King Copy Share Image
For a while I thought I would work in museums, so my first job after college was an internship at the 9/11… — Claire Saffitz Copy Share Image
If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
This [the movie Babe] is the way Americans want to think of pigs. Real-life 'Babes' see no sun in their limited lives,… — Morley Safer Copy Share Image
...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Give me the benefit of your assistance during those ablutions that neccessarily, though unfortunatly, invariably follow the excercise of the culinary art.” — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
I have made cassoulet more times than is advisable - first in culinary school, once with a friend for a dinner party,… — Claire Saffitz Copy Share Image
My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library.… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes Only two things that money can't buy That's… — John Denver Copy Share Image
The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one. — William Kitchiner Copy Share Image
A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili. — Harry James Copy Share Image
Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call… — Emmanuel des Essarts Copy Share Image
I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of… — Jonathan Aitken Copy Share Image
I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us? — Anita Manning Copy Share Image
Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un. — Marian Burros Copy Share Image
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