Culinary Quotes - Page 15

• The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.

  Norman Douglas

  Food, Artist, Perfect

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.312, Courier Corporation

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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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• Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue -- it drives away flies.

  Frederic Mistral

  Food, Joy, Cooking

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• A number of rare or newly experienced foods have been claimed to be aphrodisiacs. At one time this quality was even ascribed to the tomato. Reflect on that when you are next preparing the family salad.

  Jane Grigson

  Food, Numbers, Cooking

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• All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen.

  H. L. Mencken

  Beautiful, Song, Food

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• Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved man's lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the Martini cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much?

  Bernard DeVoto

  Food, Past, Men

  Bernard DeVoto (2010). “The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto”, p.11, Tin House Books

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• Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Food, Hero

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 381 (7 April 1779)

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• I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.

  H. L. Mencken

  Food, Drinking, Dark

  New York Post 18 Sept. 1945

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• CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Science, Heirs

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2369, Delphi Classics

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• Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!

  Tom Jones

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Vegetables

  Harvey Schmidt, Tom Jones (2000). “The Fantasticks”, p.92, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

  Adelle Davis

  Funny Inspirational, Kings, Food

  "Million Dollar Habits: Proven Power Practices to Double and Triple Your Income". Book by Brian Tracy, May 2, 2006.

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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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• 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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• Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

  Auguste Escoffier

  Foundation, Cuisine, Good Food

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.

  Art Buchwald

  Food, Water, Cooking

  New York Herald Tribune, December 29, 1960.

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• Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to think that the notoriously bad cooking of the English was an example to the contrary, and that the English cook the way they do because, through sheer technical deficiency, they had not been able to master the art of cooking. I have discovered to my stupefaction that the English cook that way because that is the way they like it.

  Waverley Root

  Country, Art, Food

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• In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables; and it is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can almost be said to have a soul.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Beautiful, Food, Essence

  "My Summer in a Garden".

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• No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Food, Lakes, Cooking

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• Some people kiss as if they were eating watermelon

  Saadat Hasan Manto

  Food, Kissing, People

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• News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

  Rose Macaulay

  Food, Cooking, Culture

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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