Culinary Quotes - Page 36

• Scotch Whisky is about the only thing left that is guaranteed to bring comfort to mankind.

  Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby

  Food, Scotch Whisky, Cooking

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• She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

  Juvenal

  Food, Oysters, Differences

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• She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.

  Barbara Pym

  Food, Wine, Simple

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• Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?

  Frank Bruni

  Food, Cooking, Tissues

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• Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.

  Emmanuel des Essarts

  Food, Giving, Cooking

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• TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Strong, Food, Cooking

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.225, University of Georgia Press

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• Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said - Come, let us all go live at Paris: the French love good eating - they are all gourmands - we shall rank high.

  Laurence Sterne

  Food, Thinking, Paris

  Laurence Sterne (1999). “Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.497, Modern Library

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• Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Humble, Islands

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.

  Emmanuel des Essarts

  Food, Cooking, Quality

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• The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.

  Bruce Jay Friedman

  Food, Cooking, Virtuous

  Bruce Jay Friedman (1978). “The Lonely Guy: And, The Slightly Older Guy”, p.33, Grove Press

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• The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.

  Emile Zola

  Food, Smell, Cooking

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• The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

  Ben Bradlee

  Food, Cooking, Champagne

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• The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.

  Ogden Nash

  Food, Loss, Eggs

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• The confection made of Cacao called Chocolate or Chocoletto which may be had in diverse places in London, at reasonable rates, is of wonderful efficacy for the procreation of children: for it not only vehemently incites to Venus, but causes conception in women . . . and besides that it preserves health, for it makes such as take it often to become fat and corpulent, fair and amiable.

  William H. Coles

  Children, Food, Cooking

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• The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Food, Yellow, White

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• The jelly - the jam and the marmalade, And the cherry-and quince-'preserves' she made! And the sweet-sour pickles of peach and pear, With cinnamon in 'em, and all things rare! And the more we ate was the more to spare, Out to old Aunt Mary's! Ah!

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Sweet, Food, Aunt

  James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.315, Indiana University Press

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• The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook.

  Euell Gibbons

  Food, Doors, Cake

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• The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Food, Sunset

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 11

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• The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

  Adelle Davis

  Food, Cooking, Healthy

  Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”

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• The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Food, Sea

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• The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament.

  Monica Baldwin

  Food, Cooking, Sacraments

  Monica Baldwin (2016). “I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent”, p.30, Read Books Ltd

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• The right food always comes at the right time. Reliance on out-of-season foods makes the gastronomic year an endlessly boring repetition.

  Roy Andries De Groot

  Food, Years, Cooking

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• The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of daring modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and newmown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord - a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig's dung) back to the simple aromatics with which the piece began. The final blast of thyme died away; there was a round of applause; the lights went up.

  Aldous Huxley

  Simple, Keys, Light

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• The white Aylesbury duck is, and deservedly, a universal favourite. Its snowy plumage and comfortable comportment make it a credit to the poultry-yard, while its broad and deep breast, and its ample back, convey the assurance that your satisfaction will not cease at its death.

  Isabella Beeton

  Food, Ducks, White

  Isabella Beeton (2006). “Mrs Beeton's Household Management”, p.428, Wordsworth Editions

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• We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Food, Wine, Cooking

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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