Culinary Quotes - Page 13

• Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

  Sheilah Graham Westbrook

  Food, Cooking, Comforting

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• The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

  Joseph Addison

  Food, Cooking, Tea

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.372

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• Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops.

  Frank Muir

  Food, Simple, Leaving

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• In the last analysis, a pickle is a cucumber with experience.

  Irena Chalmers

  Food, Cooking, Analysis

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• The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.

  Fernand Point

  Food, Cooking, Generations

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• On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

  Athenaeus

  Wine, Glasses, Years

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• The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently, and nothing can be done, and not one move made, until a “nice cup of tea” is quickly made. There is no question that it brings solace and does steady the mind. What a pity all countries are not.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Running, Country, Nice

  "Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes".

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• Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

  Iris Murdoch

  Philosophy, Food, Science

  Iris Murdoch (1989). “The Book and the Brotherhood”, p.32, Penguin

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• Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Cooking, Salad

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• Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power of words which somehow will develop its qualities.

  Marcel Boulestin

  Food, Cooking, Quality

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• Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

  John Shelton Reed

  Wine, Europe, Southern

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• In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.

  Fernand Point

  Food, Cooking, Kitchen

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• Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.

  Solomon

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  King Solomon, “The Song Of Songs”

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• Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

  Auguste Escoffier

  Foundation, Cuisine, Good Food

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• Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

  Fannie Farmer

  Food, Civilization, Cooking

  Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896). “Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• It's important to watch what you eat. Otherwise, how are you going to get it into your mouth ?

  Matthew Diamond

  Food, Cooking, Important

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• The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Men, Cooking

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2012). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Cooking, Taste

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• Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Turkeys, Cooking

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• Nature will castigate those who don't masticate.

  Horace Fletcher

  Food, Cooking

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• The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.

  George Ellwanger

  Food, Cooking, Onions

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• Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are impoverished and stretches its resources to give a hearty sustenance and cheer? Who warms you
  in the winter and cools you in the summer? Yet who also is capable of doing honor
  to your richest table and impressing your most demanding guests? Soup does its
  loyal best, no matter what undignified conditions are imposed upon it. You don't
  catch steak hanging around when you're poor and sick, do you?

  Judith Martin

  Summer, Cheer, Food

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• Garlic is as good as ten mothers.

  Les Blank

  Mother, Food, Cooking

  "Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers". Documentary, 1980.

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• There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.

  E. W. Howe

  Food, Men, Sheep

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• To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking.

  Clement Freud

  Food, Cooking, Way

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