Cooking Quotes - Page 14

• Mustard's no good without roast beef.

  Leonard Marx

  Food, Beef, Culinary

  "Fictional character: Chico". "Monkey Business", www.imdb.com. 1931.

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• My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' You can't take it seriously. But you can't ignore it, either. It takes ahold of your head and that's it. You are a pumpkin. Or you are not. I am.

  Harrison Salisbury

  Food, Favorite Words, Pumpkin

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• My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.

  Woody Allen

  Food, Funeral, Grandfather

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• Never eat in a place called 'Mom's'.

  Nelson Algren

  Mom, Food, Culinary

  Nelson Algren (1983). “The Devil's Stocking”, New York : Arbor House Library of Contemporary Americana

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• No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.

  Emily Post

  Food, Use, Culinary

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• Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.

  Pliny the Elder

  Food, Wine, Body

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• Nutrition makes me puke.

  Jimmy Piersall

  Food, Nutrition, Culinary

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• On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves.

  George Carlin

  Food, Turkeys, World

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Peanut butter - the pâté of childhood.

  Florence Fabricant

  Food, Childhood, Peanut Butter

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• PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Names, Pie

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.164, 谷月社

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• Pork - no animal is more used for nourishment and none more indispensable in the kitchen; employed either fresh or salt, all is useful, even to its bristles and its blood; it is the superfluous riches of the farmer, and helps to pay the rent of the cottager.

  Alexis Soyer

  Food, Animal, Blood

  Alexis Soyer (1851). “The Modern Housewife: Or, Ménagère. Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts, for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, and Those for the Nursery and Sick Room; and Minute Directions for Family Management in All Its Branches. Illustrated with Engravings Including the Modern Housewife's Unique Kitchen, and Magic Stove”, p.198

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• Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.

  Eli Wallach

  Food, Needs, Recipes

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• Reward is a happy customer - and an empty plate.

  Jacques Torres

  Food, Rewards, Empty

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• Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.

  Alexis Soyer

  Food, Foundation, Sauce

  Alexis Soyer (1851). “The Modern Housewife: Or, Ménagère. Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts, for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, and Those for the Nursery and Sick Room; and Minute Directions for Family Management in All Its Branches. Illustrated with Engravings Including the Modern Housewife's Unique Kitchen, and Magic Stove”, p.88

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• She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

  Juvenal

  Food, Oysters, Differences

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• I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

  Aristophanes

  Food, Home, Vegetables

  Aristophanes, Douglass Parker (1969). “Four Comedies: Lysistrata; The Acharnians; The Congresswomen, Translated by Douglass Parker. The Frogs, Translated by Richmond Lattimore”, p.44, University of Michigan Press

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• He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.

  Charles Dickens

  Food, Ceilings, Rope

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.41

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• He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Food, Sandwiches, Garlic

  Ford Madox Ford (1971). “The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford: Memories and impressions”

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• Here is a kitchen improvement, in return for Peacock. For roasting or basting a chicken, render down your fat or butter with cider: about a third cider. Let it come together slowly, till the smell of cider and the smell of fat are as one. This will enliven even a frozen chicken.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Food, Smell, Kitchen

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, David Garnett, Richard Garnett (1994). “Sylvia and David: the Townsend Warner/Garnett letters”, Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd

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• Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with... Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Food, Giving, Spoons

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• Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on miserable hardscrabble earth was actually superior to the magnificent creamy cheeses of the noblest dairy animals bred in the richest green valleys of the earth.

  Russell Baker

  Food, Animal, People

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• Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Food, Pigs, Sound

  Roy Blount, Jr. (2016). “Save Room for Pie: Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations”, p.86, Macmillan

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• Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.

  Herman Melville

  Food, Ideas, Apples

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.86

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• Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast.

  Patience Gray

  Food, Home, Wine

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• Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.

  Henry George Bohn

  Food, Faults, Hunger

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1893). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages”

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