Culinary Quotes - Page 18

• I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

  Totie Fields

  Drinking, Failure, Food

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• A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Children, Hate, Women

  How to Survive Children

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• Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

  Andy Rooney

  Food, Cooking, Half

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• Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Food, Thinking, Sheep

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• Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Money, Food, Medicine

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• You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Race, Turkeys

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• My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where
  the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry
  meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.

  Pearl Bailey

  Food, Past, Bridges

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• I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.

  Graham Kerr

  Food, Dessert First, Perfect

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• My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.

  W. C. Fields

  Baby, Food, Health

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• Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.

  Philip Sidney

  Sweet, Food, Knowledge

  Sir Philip Sidney (1831). “The Defence of Poesy”, p.16

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• Nothing stimulates the practiced cook's imagination like an egg.

  Irma S. Rombauer

  Food, Eggs, Imagination

  IRMA S ROMBAUER (1964). “VOLUME 2 APPETIZERS DESSERTS AND BAKED GOODS JOY OF COOKING”

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• When I'm asked to define "Southern food," I usually turn that question back to my audience and ask them what they think. I hear responses like fried chicken, catfish, barbecue, collard greens, and sweet potatoes. These are excellent examples, because they are historically grounded. You can trace each dish back to the people who brought these food traditions to the South. Today, these foods are central to the core culinary grammar of the American South.

  Marcie Cohen Ferris

  Sweet, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperors orgy is now a democratic institution. 'Topless Pizza Lunch'.

  Alistair Cooke

  Food, Cutting, Lunch

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• The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

  William Penn

  Food, Cooking, Volume

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.127

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• Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

  Phil Donahue

  Children, Food, Missing

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• Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Cooking, Secret

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Night, Eight

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Art, Food, Men

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Simple, Cooking

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.375, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.

  Rube Goldberg

  Food, Cooking, Matter

  "The New York Comics And Picture-story Symposium: Jennifer George And Charles Kochman", therumpus.net. March 4, 2014.

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• I eat merely to put food out of my mind.

  N. F. Simpson

  Food, Cooking, Mind

  N. F. Simpson (2013). “N. F. Simpson: Collected Plays: A Resounding Tinkle; The Hole; Gladly Otherwise; One Way Pendulum; The Cresta Run; Was He Anyone?; If So, Then Yes”, p.87, Faber & Faber

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• The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation - he cooks with enjoyment, anticipation, spontaneity, and he is willing to experiment.

  Pearl Bailey

  Cooking, Preparation, Ingredients

  Pearl Bailey (1973). “Pearl's Kitchen: An Extraordinary Cookbook”, Harcourt

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• NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Believe, Preparation, Secret

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Art, Food, Cooking

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• In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Hands, Cooking

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