Cooking Quotes - Page 35

• 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 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 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.

  Elizabeth Ray

  Food, Wine, Glasses

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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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• 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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• This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with annoying gagging sounds.

  Marni Jackson

  Children, Giving, Special

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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 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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• Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Science, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2387, Delphi Classics

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• If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Women, Food, Memorable

  "Close to Colette". Book by Maurice Goudeket, 1956.

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• All sorrows are less with bread.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Food, Cooking Classes, Home Cooking

  "The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, p. 530, 1902.

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• There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Food, Perfect, Fruit

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• Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie.

  Craig Claiborne

  Food, Heart, Pie

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• It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Writing, Reality

  The Gastronomical Me foreword (1943).

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• In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.

  George Gissing

  Food, Grandmother, Tea

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• The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, "Could I get you your check?" and we answered, "How about the menu first?"

  Erma Bombeck

  Baby, Children, Food

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• Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of the highest degree of accuracy. One of its numerous processes is to make multitudes of observations, and out of these to select only those which agree, or very nearly agree. If a hundred observations are made, the cook must be very unhappy if he cannot pick out fifteen or twenty which will do for serving up.

  Charles Babbage

  Art, Character, Science

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.124, Cambridge University Press

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• I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine per cent of our living substance were cooked in the deep interiors of earlier generations of dying stars. Gathered up from the ends of the universe, over billions of years, eventually they came to form, in part, the substance of our sun, its planets, and ourselves. Three billion years ago, life arose upon the earth. It is the only life in the solar system.

  George Wald

  Life, Stars, Science

  "American politics and its interpreters". Book by Louis C. Reichman and Barry J. Wishart (p. 80), 1971.

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• Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Easter, Food

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.129, Vintage

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• When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

  Laurie Colwin

  Food, Eggplant, Vegetables

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• Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime.

  Andre Simon

  Food, Vegetables, Ifs And

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• I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already given us tasteless bread.

  Robert Orben

  Food, Thinking, Vegetables

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• God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Food, Hungry

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• It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Food, Tables, Matter

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• Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.

  Guy Fieri

  Fall, Snow, Skiing

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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