Culinary Quotes - Page 10

• The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

  A. J. Liebling

  Food, Writing, Cooking

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan

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• The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Yoga, Exercise

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• He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

  Jonathan Swift

  Food, Men, Oysters

  1738 Polite Conversation, dialogue 2.

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• It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

  Meryl Streep

  Funny Inspirational, Children, Food

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• Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

  Craig Claiborne

  Art, Food, Home Cooking

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• You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Stars, Fun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Life, Witty

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 13, 2010

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• Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.

  Bert Greene

  Food, Cooking, Bread

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• Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Substance

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.47, University of Georgia Press

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• High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?

  Anita Manning

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Cooking

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• I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Food, Oysters

  "Don't Drink the Water: A Comedy in Two Acts". Play by Woody Allen (p. 26), 1967.

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  All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

  John Gunther

  Happiness, Happy, Food

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• And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.

  George Carlin

  Food, Cooking, Courses

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• Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

  Sophia Loren

  Beauty, Food, Inspiration

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• I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Adventure, Oysters

  Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.6, A&C Black

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• Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Grandmother, Cooking

  Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.1, Penguin

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• Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Oil, Lazy

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.77, A&C Black

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• To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

  Emily Post

  Home, Men, House

  EMILY POST (1950). “ETIQUETTE”

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• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Food, Inspiration

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 5, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Yoga, Exercise, Meditation

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.

  Don Kardong

  Sports, Food, Inspiration

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• I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, Oysters, Sick

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  The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

  Julia Child

  Attitude, Block, Real

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from May 15, 2012

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• Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Science, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2387, Delphi Classics

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• One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food

  Edna Lewis

  Food, Learning, African American

  Edna Lewis (2013). “In Pursuit of Flavor”, p.7, Knopf

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