Dishes Quotes - Page 5

• And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

  Ben Elton

  Signatures, Pudding, Beef

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• In my early days, I copied the great French chefs, like most chefs do. Copying is not bad. Copying and not recognizing that you are copying is bad. For me, when I go to a restaurant and am served a dish influenced by something we created at elBulli, if it's well done, it makes me extremely happy.

  Ferran Adria

  Copying, Done, Chef

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• I train my chefs with a blindfold. I'll get my sous chef and myself to cook a dish. The young chef would have to sit down and eat it with a blindfold. If they can't identify the flavor, they shouldn't be cooking the dish.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Cooking, Flavor, Down And

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• I don't do much cooking, but one of my favorite dishes to eat is my wife's macaroni and cheese.

  Ice Cube

  Wife, Cooking, Cheese

  "Ice Cube The "22 Jump Street" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. 2014.

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• Dinner was meat - not hunks of meat, as in Australia, but pathetic scraps of meat, as in Britain - which the girls upstairs transformed into edible dishes by heating it in secret ways and adding bits of stuff to it.

  Clive James

  Funny, Girl, Humorous

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.286, Pan Macmillan

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• Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

  Nora Ephron

  Food, People, Taste

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Nov 26, 2015

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• Animals are murdered to produce meat; vegetables are torn up, peeled, and chopped; most of what we eat is treated with fire; and chewing is designed remorselessly to finish what killing and cooking began. People naturally prefer that none of this should happen to them. Behind every rule of table etiquette lurks the determination of each person present to be a diner, not a dish.

  Margaret Visser

  Determination, Animal, Fire

  Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Work, Inequality

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.14, e-artnow

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• ...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.

  Pliny the Elder

  Food, Sea, Cooking

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• I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.

  Don DeLillo

  Country, Fall, Cutting

  Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.58, Vintage

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• It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.

  Ruth Reichl

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

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• All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.

  William Feather

  Food, Cooking, Vitamins

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• As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

  George Orwell

  Food, Oil, Cooking

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point which he is never told. It is not only so of cooking: it is so of splicing a rope; of painting a surface of wood; of mixing mortar; of almost anything you like to name among the immemorial human arts.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Art, Names, Cooking

  Hilaire Belloc (1955). “One thing and another”

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• Be careful not to be the first to put your hands in the dish. What you cannot hold in your hands you must put on your plate. Also it is a great breach of etiquette when your fingers are dirty and greasy, to bring them to your mouth in order to lick them, or to clean them on your jacket. It would be more decent to use the tablecloth.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Dirty, Food, Hands

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• The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.

  Juvenal

  Teacher

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• Women's work is always toward wholeness.

  May Sarton

  Wholeness

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• When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I would never do a dish unless I had to write.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Clothes, Lists

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• One-armed butlers, they can take it but they can't dish it out

  Tim Vine

  Butlers

  Twitter post from Mar 08, 2017

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• It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America.

  Henry Rollins

  Pain, America, Age

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• I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it?

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Mother, Children, Dirt

  "Jeremy Clarkson lifts 'pointless' injunction against ex-wife" by Josh Halliday, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2011.

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• When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you cant be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.

  Edward P. Jones

  Mother, Jobs, Growing Up

  "The two dollars a day literary sensation" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2004.

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• In more day-to-day restaurants, things have undergone a seismic change towards informality and sharing, which has been years in the making. Nowadays, people don't want just one dish; they want to order lots of things and they want to do it in fun places, places that give them an experience. The experience that a restaurant needs to offer is no longer just based around the food.

  Ferran Adria

  Fun, Order, Years

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• Many dishes bring many diseases.

  Pliny the Elder

  Disease

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• Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.

  Pliny the Elder

  Simple, Meat, Sauce

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15Natural History, Book XI, Chapter LIII. Holland's translation, 1922.

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