Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie. — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations. — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
In taking soup, it is necessary to avoid lifting too much in the spoon, or filling the mouth so full as almost… — Jean-Baptiste de La Salle Copy Share Image
But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
“Crushes weren’t made of quick and dirty; they were made of romance and fantasies. What would she do if he called her… — Amanda Usen Copy Share Image
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities.… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
In the Barbecue is any four footed animal -- be it mouse or mastodon -- whose dressed carcass is roasted whole... at… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
There is no way to understand the public reaction to the sight of a Freak smashing a coconut with a hammer on… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
A number of rare or newly experienced foods have been claimed to be aphrodisiacs. At one time this quality was even ascribed… — Jane Grigson Copy Share Image
Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables… — Andre Simon Copy Share Image
In America, even your menus have the gift of language… The Chef's own Vienna Roast. A hearty, rich meat loaf, gently seasoned… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
I've long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would… — James Beard Copy Share Image
