Cooking Quotes - Page 32

• Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Humble, Islands

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• The first of all considerations is that our meals shall be fun as well as fuel.

  Andre Simon

  Fun, Food, Meals

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• Scotch Whisky is about the only thing left that is guaranteed to bring comfort to mankind.

  Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby

  Food, Scotch Whisky, Comfort

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• I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Drinking, Food, Son

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I always plan dinner first thing in the morning. That's the only way I can get through the day, having a specific meal to look forward to at night.

  Alan King

  Morning, Food, Night

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• Take care to chop the onion fine.

  Laura Esquivel

  Food, Onions, Care

  Laura Esquivel (1994). “Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies”, Anchor

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• The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition and returned four times on account of her cooking.

  Rex Stout

  Husband, Food, Four

  Rex Stout (2010). “Some Buried Caesar”, p.78, Crimeline

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• Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?

  Steven Wright

  Cat, Justice, Mice

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• It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Food, Interesting

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• I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.

  Jeff Smith

  Coffee, Food, Rabbits

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• I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

  Voltaire

  Swimming, Animal, Perfectly Good

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• Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to a table, were set out with meagre portions of butter and jam; the china was coarse to withstand the schoolboy-clutch and the tea strong. At the Hôtel de Paris I was astonished at the fragility of the cups, the silver teapot, the little triangular savoury sandwiches, the éclairs stuffed with cream.

  Graham Greene

  Strong, Food, College

  Graham Greene (1966). “The Comedians”

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• The roe of the Russian sturgeon has probably been present at more important international affairs than have all the Russian dignitaries of history combined. This seemingly simple article of diet has taken its place in the world along with pearls, sables, old silver, and Cellini cups.

  James Beard

  Food, Taken, Simple

  James Beard (2015). “Hors d'Oeuvre and Canapés”, p.43, Open Road Media

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• Romanian-Yiddish cooking has killed more Jews than Hitler

  Zero Mostel

  Yiddish, Jew

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• And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.

  Lord Byron

  Coffee, Food, Thinking

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.

  Redd Foxx

  Food, Meals, Culinary

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• Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education.

  Gail Simmons

  New York, Writing, Order

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• No curfew. I live in the basement. I got everything I need. Home cooking ... it's awesome.

  Mike Trout

  Home, Needs, Curfew

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• The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat

  Frank Muir

  Sweet, Food, Cocktails

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• You probably would not choose to dine at a restaurant whose chef always ate elsewhere. I do eat my own cooking, and I don't "dine out" when it comes to investing.

  Seth Klarman

  Investing, Chef, Restaurants

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• It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.

  Grant Achatz

  Levels, Push Yourself, Hard

  Interview with Joanne Camas, www.epicurious.com.

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• The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Morning, Food, Destiny

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.110, Zillmann Publishing

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• The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.

  Tobias Smollett

  Food, Winter, Cold

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• The jelly - the jam and the marmalade, And the cherry-and quince-'preserves' she made! And the sweet-sour pickles of peach and pear, With cinnamon in 'em, and all things rare! And the more we ate was the more to spare, Out to old Aunt Mary's! Ah!

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Sweet, Food, Aunt

  James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.315, Indiana University Press

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• The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook.

  Euell Gibbons

  Food, Doors, Cake

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