Culinary Quotes - Page 6

• Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

  Elsa Maxwell

  Food, Cooking, Cocktails

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ...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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• All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.

  Hugh Casson

  Food, Waiting, Cooking

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

  Orson Bean

  Food, Order, Cooking

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• It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.

  Ted Allen

  Fundraising, People, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

  W. H. Auden

  Hope, Food, Cooking

  Collected Poems (1976) p. 639

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• Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.

  Sandra Boynton

  Food, Cooking, Chocolate

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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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• Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?

  Paul Claudel

  Food, Thinking, Doctors

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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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• A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Pieces

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• Approaching the stove, she would don a voluminous apron, toss some meat on a platter, empty a skillet of its perfectly cooked a point vegetables, sprinkle a handful of chopped parsley over all, and then, like a proficient striptease artist, remove the apron, allowing it to fall to the floor with a shake of her hips.

  Bert Greene

  Food, Fall, Artist

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

  Pablo Neruda

  Food, Men, Cooking

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• Chef: Any cook who swears in French.

  Henry Beard

  Food, Cooking, Chef

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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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• An understanding of what food is and how cooking works does no violence to the art of cuisine, destroys no delightful mystery. Instead, the mystery expands from matters of expertise and taste to encompass the hidden patterns and wonderful coincidences of nature.

  Harold McGee

  Art, Food, Understanding

  Harold McGee (2003). “On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen”, Scribner

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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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• 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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