Culinary Quotes
110 quotes by 81 authors
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In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
— Jim Davis
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It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes…
— Giada De Laurentiis
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When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
— Euripides
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Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
— M.F.K. Fisher
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Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
— Harriet Van Horne
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I launched The Emeril Lagasse Foundation to provide culinary training, and developmental and educational programs to children in the cities where my restaurants operate. I…
— Emeril Lagasse
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I was on the board of Andre Agassi's foundation, and seeing the way it operated blew my mind. In 2002, I told my wife, I…
— Emeril Lagasse
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My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah, I…
— Emeril Lagasse
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With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of.…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities. Bobby Flay is…
— Michael Symon
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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
— Mark Twain
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The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the…
— Gary Vaynerchuk
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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
— Voltaire
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All sorrows are less with bread.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.
— Julia Child
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If you're afraid of butter, use cream.
— Julia Child
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I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way
— Paul Theroux
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You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
— Julia Child
Who Wrote These Culinary Quotes
81 authors contributed a total of 110 Culinary Quotes, led by these top contributors: