Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
More people will die from hit-or-miss eating than from hit-and-run driving. — Duncan Hines Copy Share Image
My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school. — Flavor Flav Copy Share Image
Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one. — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best. — Waverley Root Copy Share Image
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. — Thomas Keller Copy Share Image
Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with… — Luca Parmitano Copy Share Image
But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy… — Jeffrey Steingarten Copy Share Image
It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
A balanced guest list of mixed elements is to a successful party what the seasoning is to a culinary triumph. — Letitia Baldrige Copy Share Image
Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life...but 1932 the… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Cooks are in some ways very much like actors; they must be fit and strong, since acting and cooking are two of… — Andre Simon Copy Share Image
The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests of the… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book . . . The recipes were to be the routine ones: how… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“She thought about all the baking therapy she and Char had done together during that time. Usually in the wee, wee hours.… — Donna Kauffman Copy Share Image
POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
First,” he said, coming behind me and placing his hands on the counter, just outside of mine, “choose your tomato.” He dipped… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
We wanted to make a show that not only highlights the adventure of hunting, but also the fantastic culinary opportunities that a… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
If you could choose to master a single ingredient, no choice would teach you more about cooking than the egg. It is… — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share Image
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