Culinary Quotes - Page 4

• Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Food, Talking, Cooking

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• For each glass, liberally large, the basic ingredients begin with ice cubes in a shaker and three or four drops of Angostura bitters on the ice cubes. Add several twisted lemon peels to the shaker, then a bottle-top of dry vermouth, a bottle-top of Scotch, and multiply the resultant liquid content by five with gin, preferably Bombay Sapphire. Add more gin if you think it is too bland... I have been told, but have no personal proof that it is true, that three of these taken in the course of an evening make it possible to fly from New York to Paris without an airplane.

  Isaac Stern

  New York, Taken, Airplane

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• I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

  Albert Einstein

  Food, Clothes, Cooking

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• Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.

  William Kitchiner

  Food, Cooking, Hundred

  William Kitchiner, Luigi Cornaro (1847). “Directions for Invigorating and Prolonging Life; Or, The Invalid's Oracle ...”, p.173

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• Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host' It isn't done.

  Cole Porter

  Food, Cooking, Done

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• Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.

  Thomas More

  Food, Choices, Advice

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• Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.

  Italo Calvino

  Food, Sky, Cooking

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• Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

  Victor Hugo

  Food, Character, People

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• Eggs are very much like small boys. If you overheat them or over beat them, they will turn on you and no amount of future love will right the wrong.

  Irena Chalmers

  Food, Boys, Eggs

  FaceBook post by Irena Chalmers from Mar 28, 2013

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• Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Cooking, Preparation

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.125

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• English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.

  Jay Rayner

  Food, Wine, Rocks

  "Blessed are the cheesemakers?" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2008.

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• England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Food, Swimming, Islands

  Katherine Mansfield (2009). “Stories”, p.33, Vintage

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• If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

  Lin Yutang

  Food, Cooking, Serious

  Yutang Lin (1936). “My country and my people”

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• EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Religious, Food, Cooking

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.71, University of Georgia Press

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• Even now, when I do a slide show of the Geek Squad story, the first slide is a photo of ramen noodles. Because for me, ramen noodles are the international symbol for struggle.

  Robert Stephens

  Struggle, Food, Squad

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• For many a pasty have you robbed of blood, And many a Jack of Dover have you sold That has been heated twice and twice grown cold. From many a pilgrim have you had Christ's curse, For of your parsley they yet fare the worse, Which they have eaten with your stubble goose; For in your shop full many a fly is loose.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Food, Blood, Cooking

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• Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast.

  Patience Gray

  Food, Home, Wine

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• Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on miserable hardscrabble earth was actually superior to the magnificent creamy cheeses of the noblest dairy animals bred in the richest green valleys of the earth.

  Russell Baker

  Food, Animal, People

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• Good Hock (Hochheimer) keeps off the Doc.

  Queen Victoria

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• History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king's bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly.

  Jean-Henri Fabre

  Kings, Food, Names

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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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• Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Figs

  William Shakespeare (1868). “The Works of William Shakspeare. Life, Glossary, &c. Reprinted from the Original Edition, and Compared with All Recent Commentators”, p.531

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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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• Here is a kitchen improvement, in return for Peacock. For roasting or basting a chicken, render down your fat or butter with cider: about a third cider. Let it come together slowly, till the smell of cider and the smell of fat are as one. This will enliven even a frozen chicken.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Food, Smell, Cooking

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, David Garnett, Richard Garnett (1994). “Sylvia and David: the Townsend Warner/Garnett letters”, Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd

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• Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.

  Herman Melville

  Food, Ideas, Apples

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.86

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