Food Quotes - Page 10

• Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.

  Daniel Boulud

  Life, Fun, Design

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• Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.

  George Ellwanger

  Art, Important, Ancient

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• Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

  Carl Sandburg

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

  Robert Mondavi

  Mother, Wine, Italian

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• OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Oysters, Civilization

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.177, University of Georgia Press

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• McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Sports, Sarcastic, Cancer

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• I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Drinking

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• There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

  Mark Twain

  People, Gone, Dry

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3582, GENERAL PRESS

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• Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

  Walt Kelly

  Real, Cooking, Culinary

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• If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

  Lin Yutang

  Cooking, Serious, Culinary

  Yutang Lin (1936). “My country and my people”

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• What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

  A. A. Milne

  Beauty, Home Cooking, Likes

  "Not That It Matters".

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• Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Humor, Carpe Diem

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• No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

  Laurie Colwin

  Past, Cooking Classes, Home Cooking

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• An army marches on its stomach.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Army, Cooking

  Attributed in Wash. Post, 18 Sept. 1898. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, this was "probably condensed from a long passage in E. A. de Las Cases Memorial de Ste-Helene (1823) vol. 4, 14 Nov. 1816; also attributed to Frederick the Great, in Notes and Queries 10 March 1866." The 1866 attribution to Frederick is worded "an army moves on (or by) its stomach."

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• Beware the hobby that eats.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Liberty, Hobbies, Caution

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• Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

  Robert Orben

  Funny, Birthday, Fitness

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• The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th.

  Scott Adams

  Wedding Anniversary, Wife, Might

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• Everything in moderation, including moderation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Moderation

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

  Bert Greene

  Cooking, Bread, Rising

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• Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Broken Heart, Eggs, World

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.

  Charlie Trotter

  Cooking, Way, Taste

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• Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.

  Alton Brown

  Cooking, Recipes, Chef

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• Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.

  Dorothy Draper

  Sports, Games, Play

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• Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Eggs

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.

  Alton Brown

  Hurt, Giving, Ferrets

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