Culinary Quotes - Page 20

• When you have a chef that wants to be in the spotlight, maybe after one or two appearances on a show, they think they're at a certain level that they haven't reached yet in the kitchen. Shows like 'Top Chef', 'Hell's Kitchen' have helped bring attention to the culinary world.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Thinking, Two, Kitchen

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• As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Food, Writing, Cooking

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• Ethnic, cultural, artistic and culinary diversity. LA...a feast for the senses.

  Yasmine Bleeth

  Diversity, Artistic, Senses

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• A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.

  Alton Brown

  Home, Flying, Too Much

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• I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.

  Claudette Colbert

  Food, Thinking, Order

  "Fictional character: Betty MacDonald". "The Egg and I", www.imdb.com. 1947.

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• We wanted to make a show that not only highlights the adventure of hunting, but also the fantastic culinary opportunities that a successful hunt can bring. It's great to have those efforts validated with a Beard nomination, and it speaks to the dedication of everyone on the MeatEater team. This honor makes us even more motivated to keep hammering out a solid, authentic hunting show that speaks to a variety of audiences.

  Steven Rinella

  Team, Adventure, Successful

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• If you could choose to master a single ingredient, no choice would teach you more about cooking than the egg. It is an end in itself; it's a multipurpose ingredient; it's an all-purpose garnish; it's an invaluable tool. The egg teaches your hands finesse and delicacy. It helps your arms develop strength and stamina. It instructs in the way proteins behave in heat and in the powerful ways we can change food mechanically. It's a lever for getting other foods to behave in great ways. Learn to take the egg to its many differing ends, and you've enlarged your culinary repertoire by a factor of ten.

  Michael Ruhlman

  Powerful, Hands, Eggs

  Michael Ruhlman (2011). “Ruhlman's Twenty: 20 Techniques, 200 Recipes, A Cook's Manifesto”, p.104, Chronicle Books

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• A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes.

  Melissa Fay Greene

  Sweet, Real, Food

  Melissa Fay Greene (2015). “Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction”, p.22, Da Capo Press

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• When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

  Gelett Burgess

  Inspirational, Food, Men

  Gelett Burgess (1937). “Look Eleven Years Younger”

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• After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.

  Emily Luchetti

  Halloween, Food, Army

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• Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life...but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat - these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country.

  Roald Dahl

  Country, Memories, Children

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• If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.

  Jonathan Aitken

  Food, Glasses, Hands

  Jonathan Aitken (1971). “Land of Fortune: A Study of the New Australia”, London : Secker and Warburg

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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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