No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
One of my life's watchwords is 'hyggelig.' It's an untranslatable Danish term for getting together with friends and family and sitting around… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking.… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Artistic integrity is not a guest whom one may choose not to invite to a gala. She must be the first you… — Doug Dorst Copy Share Image
“Luke dug up a bottle of port from the Citizen's dusty Cask of Amontillado wine cellar, and took turns sipping from the… — April Genevieve Tucholke Copy Share Image
Wine buffs write and talk as though the food and wine will be in your mouth at the same time, that one… — Clement Freud Copy Share Image
“The great chestnut-wood tables groaned under the weight of platters, trays, plates, dishes and bowls. The whole Feast was here, John saw.… — Lawrence Norfolk Copy Share Image
“The wines were great, and better by the minute, even as the drinkers softened. Just as wines opened at the table, so… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“But this isn't standard Japanese picnic fare: not a grain of rice or a pickled plum in sight. Instead, they fill the… — Matt Goulding Copy Share Image
“As he talked, Pepino roughly diced a concasse into a stainless steel bowl, deftly peeling and deseeding three small, vine-ripened tomatoes in… — Brian O'Reilly Copy Share Image
With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Food and wine. Decide which is the soloist, which the accompanist. — Michael Broadbent Copy Share Image
I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook. — Robert Mondavi Copy Share Image
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
My heart is singing; tears are shed that waz starved and warmed fed for love is fire and food and wine all… — Sergio Alvarez Copy Share Image
“I told a friend of mine that my ambition was now to design my lifestyle around food. He made funny remarks about… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hugo planned a five-course meal: smoked duck, oyster stew, roast beef with mashed yams, a salad of apples with beets and blue… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“He carefully poured the juice into a bowl and rinsed the scallops to remove any sand caught between the tender white meat… — Elizabeth Bard Copy Share Image
“He chopped a garlic, set a pot of water to boil on the stove, and poured a healthy amount of kosher salt… — Jennifer Close Copy Share Image
“Barrels of oysters wrapped in seaweed came by boat from Stollport. Fat beam and trout were carried in dripping wooden boxes lined… — Lawrence Norfolk Copy Share Image
