Cooking Quotes - Page 29

• I know my limit. I just keep passing out before I reach it.

  Red Skelton

  Food, Limits, Culinary

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• I love fruit, when it is expensive.

  Arthur Wing Pinero

  Food, Fruit, Culinary

  Arthur Wing Pinero (2007). “The Second Mrs. Tanqueray”, p.77, Broadview Press

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• I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber, indigestible pseudo-sausages that millions of Americans now eat, and they leaked the same flabby, puerile mustard. Their single point of difference lay in the fact that their covers were honest German Wecke made of wheat-flour baked to crispiness, and not the soggy rolls prevailing today, of ground acorns, plaster-of-Paris, flecks of bath-sponge, and atmospheric air all compact.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dog, Food, Differences

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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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• I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

  George Gissing

  Hate, Food, Names

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• I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, Should Have, Meals

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.270, Penguin

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• I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

  S. J. Perelman

  Food, Teeth, Gone

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• I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.

  Nigella Lawson

  Food, Thinking, Insecurity

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• He walked out of the hospital into the sun, into open air for the first time in months, out of the green-lit rooms that lay like glass in his mind. He stood there breathing everything in, the hurry of everyone. First, he thought, I need shoes with rubber on the bottom. I need gelato.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Food, Glasses, Air

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.27, Vintage

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• I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

  Albert Einstein

  Food, Clothes, Kind

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• I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.

  Nadine Velazquez

  Husband, Hot, Arms

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• I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Food, Eye, Order

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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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• I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a mom who worked in the restaurant business, I spent a lot of time fending for myself, eating alone - and recognizing how eating together made all the difference.

  Thomas Keller

  Mom, Brother, Food

  Thomas Keller (2016). “Bouchon”, p.2, Artisan Books

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• I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

  Janet Flanner

  Food, Sea, Sailor

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• If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You are endangering your soul and the use of wine as well... Seek out some other wine good to your taste.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Food, Wine, Men

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• If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup.

  Louis Diat

  Food, Important, Essentials

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• I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Inspiration, Milk

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• I said to my wife, 'Where do you want to go for our anniversary?' She said, 'I want to go somewhere I've never been before.' I said, 'Try the kitchen.'

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Food, Humor

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• If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Glasses, Hands

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• I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.

  Samuel Pepys

  Food, Home, Wife

  Samuel Pepys (2000). “The Diary of Samuel Pepys”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• If you want to know the people of a nation, I am sure you can judge a great deal more about them from their cooking and eating traditions than you can from the words and actions of their public officials.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Food, People, Judging

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• I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.

  Daniel Boulud

  Real, Inspiration, Years

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

  Lin Yutang

  Food, Serious, Culinary

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

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• I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruit drops - red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Food, Orange, Jelly

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