Culinary Quotes - Page 5

• Abstain from beans. There be sundry interpretations of this symbol. But Plutarch and Cicero think beans to be forbidden of Pythagoras, because they be windy and do engender impure humours and for that cause provoke bodily lust.

  Richard Taverner

  Food, Thinking, Cooking

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• ...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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• 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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• All millionaires love a baked apple.

  Ronald Firbank

  Food, Apples, Cooking

  'Vainglory' (1915) ch. 13

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• Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.

  Betty Ford

  Food, Alcohol, Cooking

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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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• And through the hall there walked to and fro A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same, Whose name was Appetite; he did bestow Both guestes and meate, whenever in they came, And knew them how to order without blame.

  Edmund Spenser

  Food, Order, Names

  Edmund Spenser (1872). “Spenser. Book ii of The faery queene, ed. by G.W. Kitchin”, p.116

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• A carbonated wine foisted upon Americans (who else would drink it?) by winery ad agencies as a way of getting rid of inferior champagne by mixing it with inferior burgundy.

  John Ciardi

  Food, Wine, Agency

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• How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue...and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake? Where does the glue go?

  Rita Rudner

  Food, Cake, Eggs

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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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• And then you bit onto them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal that the animal didn't know it had got. Dibbler had worked out that with enough fried onions and mustard people would eat anything.

  Terry Pratchett

  Food, Cutting, Animal

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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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• I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities. Bobby Flay is one of my dearest friends and a tremendous mentor for me. Mario Batali is the same way. They began doing TV a little before me and they showed me the way.

  Michael Symon

  Mentor, Lucky, World

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• Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Food, Talking, Cooking

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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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• Bring me an order of escargots, but hold the slugs.

  Orson Bean

  Food, Order, Cooking

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• Bread is a staple article of diet in theory, rather than in practice. There are few who are truly fond of bread in its simplest, most pure, and most healthful state.... Is there one person in a thousand who would truly enjoy a meal of simple bread of two days old?

  William Alcott

  Food, Simple, Practice

  William A. Alcott (2013). “The Young Housekeeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery”, p.39, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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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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• But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh! sweet friends, hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt... we dispatched it with great expedition.

  Herman Melville

  Sweet, Food, Cutting

  Herman Melville (2015). “MOBY-DICK (WITH NOTES)(BIOGRAPHY)(ILLUSTRATED): OR, THE WHALE”, p.100, Rastro Digital

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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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• 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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• Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.

  Jonathan Aitken

  Appreciation, Food, Glasses

  Jonathan Aitken (1971). “Land of fortune: a study of the new Australia”

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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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