Food Quotes - Page 20

• If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup.

  Louis Diat

  Cooking, Important, Essentials

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• It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Destiny, Thinking, Cooking

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• It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wine, Men, Cooking

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.823, GENERAL PRESS

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

  Ruth Reichl

  Cooking, Culinary, Dishes

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• It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

  Lewis Carroll

  Roots, Cooking, Onions

  Lewis Carroll, Nickolas Cook (2011). “Alice in Zombieland”, p.144, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You are endangering your soul and the use of wine as well... Seek out some other wine good to your taste.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wine, Men, Giving

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• I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a mom who worked in the restaurant business, I spent a lot of time fending for myself, eating alone - and recognizing how eating together made all the difference.

  Thomas Keller

  Mom, Brother, Eating Together

  Thomas Keller (2016). “Bouchon”, p.2, Artisan Books

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• If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Believe, Men, Cooking

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• Never eat Chinese food in Oklahoma.

  Bryan Q. Miller

  Oklahoma, Cooking, Chinese

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• In America, even your menus have the gift of language.... The Chef's own Vienna Roast. A hearty, rich meat loaf, gently seasoned to perfection and served in a creamy nest of mashed farm potatoes and strictly fresh garden vegetables. Of course, what you get is cole slaw and a slab of meat, but that doesn't matter because the menu has already started your juices going. Oh, those menus. In America, they are poetry.

  Laurie Lee

  Garden, Vegetables, America

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• It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and then eaten with a fork. Ladies should be particularly careful how they manage so ticklish a dainty, lest the exhibition rub off a little desirable romance.

  Charlie Day

  Knives, Romance, Cooking

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• It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

  O. Henry

  Ambition, Sunshine, Dark

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• It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

  Henry James

  Eggs, Cooking, Done

  Henry James (1993). “Collected Travel Writings: The Continent”, p.266, Library of America

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• If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wine, Sleep, Thinking

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• If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Cooking, Noble, Records

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• If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.

  Roald Dahl

  Teacher, Cooking, Chocolate

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• If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Glasses, Hands, Long

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• If you want to know the people of a nation, I am sure you can judge a great deal more about them from their cooking and eating traditions than you can from the words and actions of their public officials.

  Peter Kropotkin

  People, Judging, Cooking

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• In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'

  Albert Schweitzer

  Tombstone, Writing, Cooking

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• In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his estate, but of the amount of pepper in his pantry. One way of saying that a man was poor was to say that he lacked pepper. The wealthy lacked pepper. The wealthy kept large stores of pepper in their houses, and let it be known that it was there: it was a guarantee of solvency.

  Waverley Root

  Men, Land, House

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• In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.

  A. J. Liebling

  Loss, Light, Oysters

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• It's food too fine for angels, yet come, take and eat thy fill!

  Edward Taylor

  Angel, Cooking, Culinary

  Edward Taylor, “I Am The LIVIng Bread: Meditation Eight: John 6:51”

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• It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.

  Izaak Walton

  Queens, Men, Cooking

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (2014). “The Compleat Angler”, p.151, OUP Oxford

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• It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.

  Virginia Woolf

  Cooking, Novelists, Salmon

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2616, Delphi Classics

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• It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit down to them from time to time. It was largesse that made us all; we were not created to fast forever... Enter here, therefore, as a sovereign remedy for the narrowness of our minds and the stinginess of our souls.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Forever, Cooking, Soul

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