If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.
Be careful not to be the first to put your hands in the dish. What you cannot hold in your hands you must put on your plate. Also it is a great breach of etiquette when your fingers are dirty and greasy, to bring them to your mouth in order to lick them, or to clean them on your jacket. It would be more decent to use the tablecloth.
I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.
I have always maintained that there is nothing wrong with nursery food now that we are grown up and can have a glass of wine with it.
Classic Recipe for Roast Beef: 1 large Roast of beef 1 small Roast of beef Take the two roasts and put them in the oven. When the little one burns, the big one is done.
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini?
I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink.
Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.
Brandy and water spoils two good things.
It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.
There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
Although the frankfurter originated in Frankfurt, Germany, we have long since made it our own, a twin pillar of democracy along with Mom's apple pie. In fact, now that Mom's apple pie comes frozen and baked by somebody who isn't Mom, the hot dog stands alone. What it symbolizes remains pure, even if what it contains does not.
Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.
As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.
Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.
Appetite comes with eating.
Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.
Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.
And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.
And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.
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