Culinary Quotes - Page 8

• Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

  Voltaire

  Food, Ice Cream, Cooking

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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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• Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.

  Isabella Beeton

  Food, Cooking, May

  Isabella Beeton, Nicola Humble (2008). “Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition”, p.366, Oxford University Press

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

  Pablo Neruda

  Food, Men, Cooking

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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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• Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead.

  Gyles Brandreth

  Food, Eight, Typewriters

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

  Steven Wright

  Food, Humor, Cooking

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

  Clementine Paddleford

  Food, White, Cooking

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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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• I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

  George Saintsbury

  Food, Thinking, Cooking

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• I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.

  John Evelyn

  Confused, Food, Men

  John Evelyn (1997). “John Evelyn, Cook: The Manuscript Receipt Book of John Evelyn”, Prospect Books (UK)

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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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• If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.

  Ted Allen

  Atrocities Committed, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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

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• He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Food, Greed, Cooking

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.133, Graphic Arts Books

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• A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Food, Men, Cooking

  The Young Duke bk. 1, ch. 14 (1831)

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• I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.

  Wilhelm II

  Food, Cooking, Germany

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• Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

  Anthony Trollope

  Funny Love, Food, Cooking

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.606, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we are becoming culinary nitwits, dependent upon fast foods and mass kitchens and megavitamins for our basically rotten nourishment.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Kitchen, Becoming, Culture

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