Culinary Quotes

• You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

  Julia Child

  Positive, Food, Health

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from Nov 26, 2015

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• Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

  Julia Child

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sports

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from Sep 01, 2013

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  Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

  Jim Davis

  Thanksgiving, Food, Zucchini

  Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His 6th Book”, p.4, Ballantine Group

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• Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Food, Humor

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• Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Food, Wine, Cooking

  "The Man from Monticello: An Intimate Life of Thomas Jefferson". Book by Thomas J. Fleming, p. 250, 1969.

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• Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

  Voltaire

  Drinking, Food, Godly

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• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Health, Animal

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1911). “The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

  Doug Larson

  Life, Hilarious, Food

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• He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

  C. S. Lewis

  Easter, Food, Heart

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.21, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.

  Norman Douglas

  Food, Grandmother, Men

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• Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.

  Spike Milligan

  Food, Cooking, Chinese

  Spike Milligan (2011). “Milligan's Meaning of Life: An Autobiography of Sorts”, p.198, Penguin UK

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• All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.

  William Feather

  Food, Cooking, Vitamins

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• Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wine, Tolerance, Vines

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• My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

  Nora Ephron

  Mother, Food, Home Cooking

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from May 12, 2014

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• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Food, Sleep

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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• Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Success, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

  Harriet Van Horne

  Love, Food, Memorable

  1956 Vogue, Oct.

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  People who love to eat are always the best people.

  Julia Child

  Love, Food, Eating Good

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• I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

  James Beard

  Food, Home Cooking, Gourmet

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• A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Spiritual, Food, Men

  "George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality". Book by Hesketh Pearson, 1942.

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• I think every woman should have a blowtorch.

  Julia Child

  Thinking, Should Have, Cooking

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• Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

  Jane Austen

  Food, Apples, Pie

  Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.303, Oxford University Press

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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, Cooking

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• I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Food, Worry, Cooking

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• Be careful not to be the first to put your hands in the dish. What you cannot hold in your hands you must put on your plate. Also it is a great breach of etiquette when your fingers are dirty and greasy, to bring them to your mouth in order to lick them, or to clean them on your jacket. It would be more decent to use the tablecloth.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Dirty, Food, Hands

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