Dining Quotes - Page 6

• Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network. When I opened Spago, I had the kitchen in the dining hall. It was probably the first restaurant to do so. The dining scene became more casual. All these cooking shows have transformed our profession one-hundred percent.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Cooking, Kitchen, Television

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• At lunchtime the place is jumping, while at night the dining rooms could have been rented out for chess tournaments.

  Bryan Q. Miller

  Night, Jumping, Lunch

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• A dining club which I was involved in at Oxford University invited Sir Isaiah Berlin to dinner, who I believe was probably the greatest liberal philosopher in the 20th century. I sat beside him and we spoke about liberal philosophy and the events of the 20th century all night over dinner - it was unforgettable!

  George Brandis

  Philosophy, Believe, Night

  Source: thebriefonline.atavist.com

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• Today there are very few chefs at that high level who are behind their stoves. You don't feel their presence within the room. Where's the romance? Where's the show? Where's the theater? The modern day restaurant - it's like dining in a chapel. It's boring.

  Marco Pierre White

  Romance, Levels, Today

  Source: tart.org

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• Think beyond the vase! If you have a vase of flowers on a dining table for a quick dinner party, think about scattering flower petals, leaves, or even fruit along the tabletop.

  Clinton Smith

  Party, Flower, Thinking

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• The dining room is a building; the bathroom is a building. If we scatter this single-program architecture inside of a domestic environment, we can link an interior urbanism in a way similar to a village or a township of tiny houses.

  Jimenez Lai

  House, Way, Rooms

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).

  Bryan Q. Miller

  Airplane, Quality, Rooms

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• I don't think fine dining is dying, but I think those rare occasions when you really want the fanciness are diminishing... I think a lot of people are going to find simpler, more casual ways to enjoy an experience.

  Mario Batali

  Thinking, People, Dying

  Interview with Liz Biro, www.indystar.com. November 21, 2015.

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• Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a prison that deadens your senses, and to feel wholly alive you must go for a walk.

  Garrison Keillor

  Car, Comfort, Alive

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• Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Average, Lasts, Rooms

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• Personal sympathy has helped me on very much. My husband from first to last has watched every picture with delight, and it is my daily habit to run to him with every glass upon which a fresh glory is newly stamped, and to listen to his enthusiastic applause. This habit of running into the dining-room with my wet pictures has stained such an immense quantity of table linen with nitrate of silver, indelible stains, that I should have been banished from any less indulgent household.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Running, Husband, Glasses

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• You know, I hate to borrow Apple's tag, but think different. Really. From the very beginning. I didn't know what the fast-food rules were. I got my training at the Culinary Institute Of America, and then I opened up a fast food place according to fine dining rules.

  Steve Ells

  Hate, Thinking, Apples

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• It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.

  Lewis Carroll

  House, Jelly, Manners

  Lewis Carroll (1996). “The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll”, p.1114, Wordsworth Editions

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• I'm a man more dined against than dining.

  Maurice Bowra

  Food, Men

  In John Betjeman 'Summoned by Bells' (1960) ch. 9.

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• One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.

  Willa Cather

  Summer, Book, Garden

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.3, Vintage

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• When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Sitting, Rooms

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• The house was immaculate, as always, not a stray hair anywhere, not a flake of dandruff or a crumpled towel. Even the roses on the dining-room table held their breath. A kind of airless cleanliness that always made me want to sneeze.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Hair, Rose, House

  Sandra Cisneros (2007). “Vintage Cisneros”, p.52, Vintage

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• If you wish to be good "Pantagruelists" (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.

  Francois Rabelais

  Faith, People, Joy

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• Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hinduism, Restriction

  Mahatma Gandhi (1973). “Collected Works”

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• I think people are more savvy about cooking, food and dining. I notice they are looking for more value for their money - not in larger portions but more in terms of healthier, fresh, farm-to-table dishes with a nice presentation.

  Cat Cora

  Nice, Thinking, People

  "Chef Cat Cora Dishes on Healthy Cooking". "Good Morning America" with Diane Henderiks, abcnews.go.com. April 23, 2012.

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• Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.

  Boris Johnson

  Opportunity, Thinking, Play

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• I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me.

  Shirley Jackson

  Girl, Baby, Morning

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.697, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Home, Gentleman, Phrases

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• He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table, a sea of them on her dining table. Jesus Christ, Dane, you need treatment.

  Nora Roberts

  Jesus, Coffee, Book

  Nora Roberts (2003). “Key Of Knowledge”, p.81, Penguin

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• It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years.

  Russell Brand

  Monday, Years, Bob

  "Russell Brand: profile" by James Sturcke, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2008.

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