Culinary Quotes - Page 4

• ...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.

  E. M. Forster

  Food, Cooking, Spirit

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• ...if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.

  William Allen White

  Food, Cooking, Dawn

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• American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, America

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• A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from the woods was free and amounted to a diurnal dining diary that everyone kept in their heads. May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and stinging nettles. July was cherries and wild strawberries. August was forest berries. September was porcini.

  Bill Buford

  Food, June, July

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• A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

  Clementine Paddleford

  Food, White, Cooking

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• In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Truffles, Fine, Diamond

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2010). “A Handbook of Gastronomy”, p.74, Lulu.com

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• But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

  Eugene Field

  Food, Blessed, Night

  'Apple Pie and Cheese'

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• So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.

  Alton Brown

  Jobs, Years, Two

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• As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

  Honore de Balzac

  Coffee, Struggle, Moving

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• Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

  Bennett Cerf

  Food, Cooking, Soup

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• All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.

  H. L. Mencken

  Food, Men, Cooking

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• The key dietary messages are stunningly simple: Eat less, move more, eat more fruits and vegetables, and don't eat too much junk food. It's no more complicated than that.

  Marion Nestle

  Food, Moving, Simple

  "A Conversation with Marion Nestle: Straight Talk About Obesity, Nutrition, and Food Policy". Interview with Jon Stewart, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. 2006.

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• A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some of our Edinburgh philosophers tried to produce their equal in vain. I was one of a party at dinner where the philosophical haddocks were placed in competition with the genuine Finnan fish. These were served round without distinguishing whence they came; but only one gentleman out of twelve present espoused the cause of philosophy.

  Walter Scott

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Party

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• A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Long, Cooking

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.85, Univ of California Press

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• When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

  William Feather

  Lunch, Indecisive, Bigs

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem... biting into it!

  Shel Silverstein

  Food, Cake, Cooking

  Shel Silverstein, “Recipe For A Hippopotamus Sandwich”

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• I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.

  Steven Wright

  Food, Humor, Cooking

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• The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Summer, Jobs, School

  "Get To Know Giada". Interview with Alice Park, content.time.com. June 2, 2006.

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• As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

  Hattie McDaniel

  Food, Cooking, Dumplings

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• An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

  Jacques Prevert

  Sweet, Food, Night

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• Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.

  Helen Rowland

  Food, Men, Offering

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.72, Lulu.com

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• I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.

  Shel Silverstein

  Believe, Food, Hands

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• I am not strict vegan, because I'm a hedonist pig. If I see a big chocolate cake that is made with eggs, I'll have it.

  Grace Slick

  Food, Pigs, Cake

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• ...the act of eating,which hath by several wise men been considered as extremely mean and derogatory from the philosophic dignity, must be in some measure performed by the greatest prince, hero, or philosopher upon earth; nay, sometimes Nature hath been so frolicsome as to exact of these dignified characters a much more exorbitant share of this office than she hath obliged those of the lowest orders to perform.

  Henry Fielding

  Wise, Hero, Food

  Henry Fielding (1844). “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling: With the Life of the Author : in Two Volumes”, p.443

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• The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker.

  Pablo Neruda

  Food, Men, Cooking

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