Culinary Quotes - Page 16

• PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Animal, Pigs

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.164, 谷月社

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• Eat as much as you like-just don't swallow it.

  Steve Burns

  Food, Cooking, Dieting

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• The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago.

  Bill Gates

  Gratitude, Kings, Food

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• Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the perspiration of the sky or a sort of saliva of the stars, or the moisture of the air purging itself, nevertheless it brings with it the great pleasure of its heavenly nature. It is always of the best quality when it is stored in the best flowers.

  Pliny the Elder

  Stars, Flower, Food

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• Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

  Pliny the Elder

  Food, Wine, Sadness

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• American Danish can be doughy, heavy, sticky, tasting of prunes and is usually wrapped in cellophane. Danish Danish is light, crisp, buttery and often tastes of marzipan or raisins; it is seldom wrapped in anything but loving care.

  R. W. Apple

  Food, Light, Cooking

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• Cuisine is when things taste like themselves.

  Curnonsky

  Food, Cooking, Taste

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• An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

  George du Maurier

  Food, Apples, Cooking

  George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.157, Booklassic

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• Food: Part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories.

  Beverley Baxter

  Spiritual, Believe, Food

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• Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Cereal, Color

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.128, Vintage

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• The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.

  Paul Bocuse

  Food, Mean, Cooking

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• But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.

  Jeffrey Steingarten

  Art, Goal, Comfort

  Jeffrey Steingarten (2011). “The Man Who Ate Everything”, p.5, Vintage

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• Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.

  James Cromwell

  Food, Pigs, Cooking

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• Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable it has original sin, and needs improvement. It can smell foul in the pot, linger through the house with pertinacity, and ruin a meal with its wet flab. Cabbage also has a nasty history of being good for you.

  Jane Grigson

  Food, Vegetables, Years

  Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press

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• A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters.

  Willard Spiegelman

  Food, Water, Cooking

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• Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a text. The just-wed cook brings to the new household no carefully copied collection of the family's cherished recipes, but a spanking new edition of 'Fannie Farmer' or 'The Joy of Cooking'.

  John Thorne

  Food, Other Cultures, Joy

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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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• 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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• More people will die from hit-or-miss eating than from hit-and-run driving.

  Duncan Hines

  Running, Food, People

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• I think the great Mexican cuisine is dying because there are fast foods now competing, because there are supermarkets, and supermarkets can't afford to keep in stock a lot of these very perishable products that are used for fine Mexican cooking. Women are working and real Mexican cooking requires enormous amounts of time.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Real, Food, Thinking

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• An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.

  Oliver Herford

  Food, Cooking, Make The Best Of It

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• Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?

  Marilyn Monroe

  Food, Cooking

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• My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Food, Cooking, Mayonnaise

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• 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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• 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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