CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school. — Tom Douglas Copy Share Image
Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere… — Sandra Boynton Copy Share Image
An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it. — Oliver Herford Copy Share Image
One should never refuse an invitation to lunch or dinner, for one never knows what one may have to eat the next… — Edouard de Pomiane Copy Share Image
I started waiting tables in college and realized how much I loved the business and loved to cook. I decided to go… — Anne Burrell Copy Share Image
So you can settle the fuck down. My mother used to say, "Primero comemos, entonces lo demás." That means, "first we eat,… — Brian Yorkey Copy Share Image
Not having a New York culinary tradition, far from being limiting, it's an opportunity to create freely. — Wylie Dufresne Copy Share Image
A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
No matter what kind of diet you are on, you can usually eat as much as you want of anything you don't… — Walter Slezak Copy Share Image
I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh! sweet friends, hearken to me. It was made of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Hell is probably quite similar to most Paris bistros ... a bit overheated, somewhat too crowded, and a little too noisy for… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure… — Giada De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
And then you bit onto them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Eating at a new, highly recommended restaurant is like a Very Important Blind Date, a contract with uncertainty you enter into with… — Stuart Stevens Copy Share Image
...the act of eating,which hath by several wise men been considered as extremely mean and derogatory from the philosophic dignity, must be… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In most households a cup of coffee is considered the one thing needful at the breakfast hour. But how often this exhilarating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two Italies… The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man;… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
For each glass, liberally large, the basic ingredients begin with ice cubes in a shaker and three or four drops of Angostura… — Isaac Stern Copy Share Image
“You think in terms of educated palates, and you'd be right to assume most folks here wouldn't know a panna cotta from… — Donna Kauffman Copy Share Image
EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,'… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
