Culinary Quotes - Page 37

• I like a Blackpool breakfast, me - 20 ciggies and a pot of tea.

  Paul O'Grady

  Food, Cooking, Tea

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• There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Peace, Men, Nuts

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Men, Body, Soup

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• Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.

  Robert Orben

  Children, Food, Cereal

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• Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

  Samuel Johnson

  Horse, Food, Oats

  A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

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• When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Food, Winning, Cooking

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• Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.

  Jonathan Swift

  Food, Kissing, Cooking

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1778). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Notes Historical and Critical”, p.182

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• The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sarcastic, Children, Food

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• America knows nothing of food, love, or art.

  Isadora Duncan

  Sarcastic, Art, Food

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• Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

  John Milton

  Food, Cooking, Black

  John Milton (1869). “Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books”, p.217

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• If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

  William Penn

  Art, Food, Cooking

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

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• The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Food, Men, Vegetables

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.34, Penguin

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• If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

  Diogenes

  Food, Cooking, Hunger

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable price, but no one mentioned that the result usually tasted like the stuffing inside of a teddy bear.

  Julia Child

  Food, Records, Poultry

  Julia Child (2009). “My Life in France”, p.173, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Morning, Food

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Edition”, p.423, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

  Aesop

  Peace, Fear, Food

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.8, Pelekanos Books

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• I never met a Cab I didn't like.

  Graham Kerr

  Food, Cooking, Mets

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• I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Inspiration, Cooking

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• If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Food, Blessing, Cooking

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• If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Believe, Food, Men

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• If you want to know the people of a nation, I am sure you can judge a great deal more about them from their cooking and eating traditions than you can from the words and actions of their public officials.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Food, People, Judging

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• If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Food, Wine, Sleep

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• In America, even your menus have the gift of language.... The Chef's own Vienna Roast. A hearty, rich meat loaf, gently seasoned to perfection and served in a creamy nest of mashed farm potatoes and strictly fresh garden vegetables. Of course, what you get is cole slaw and a slab of meat, but that doesn't matter because the menu has already started your juices going. Oh, those menus. In America, they are poetry.

  Laurie Lee

  Food, Garden, Vegetables

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• In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.

  H. L. Mencken

  Food, Cooking, Jocks

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• In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'

  Albert Schweitzer

  Tombstone, Food, Writing

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