Food Quotes - Page 24

• TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Strong, Cooking, Sometimes

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.225, University of Georgia Press

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• Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said - Come, let us all go live at Paris: the French love good eating - they are all gourmands - we shall rank high.

  Laurence Sterne

  Thinking, Paris, Cooking

  Laurence Sterne (1999). “Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.497, Modern Library

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• The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.

  Bruce Jay Friedman

  Cooking, Culinary, Virtuous

  Bruce Jay Friedman (1978). “The Lonely Guy: And, The Slightly Older Guy”, p.33, Grove Press

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• The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

  Ben Bradlee

  Cooking, Culinary, Champagne

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• The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.

  Ogden Nash

  Loss, Eggs, People

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• The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Yellow, White, Cooking

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• The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.

  Redd Foxx

  Cooking, Meals, Culinary

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• The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition and returned four times on account of her cooking.

  Rex Stout

  Husband, Cooking, Four

  Rex Stout (2010). “Some Buried Caesar”, p.78, Crimeline

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• The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat

  Frank Muir

  Sweet, Cooking, Cocktails

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• The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?

  Erma Bombeck

  Wall, Track, Cooking

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• The jelly - the jam and the marmalade, And the cherry-and quince-'preserves' she made! And the sweet-sour pickles of peach and pear, With cinnamon in 'em, and all things rare! And the more we ate was the more to spare, Out to old Aunt Mary's! Ah!

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Sweet, Aunt, Cooking

  James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.315, Indiana University Press

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• The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Sunset, Cooking

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 11

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• The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

  Adelle Davis

  Cooking, Healthy, Nutrition

  Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”

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• The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament.

  Monica Baldwin

  Cooking, Culinary, Sacraments

  Monica Baldwin (2016). “I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent”, p.30, Read Books Ltd

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• The time will come when this luscious golden tomato, rich in nutrition, a delight to the eye, a joy to the palate whether fried, baked, broiled or even eaten raw will form the foundation of a great garden industry.

  Robert Johnson

  Eye, Garden, Joy

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• The white Aylesbury duck is, and deservedly, a universal favourite. Its snowy plumage and comfortable comportment make it a credit to the poultry-yard, while its broad and deep breast, and its ample back, convey the assurance that your satisfaction will not cease at its death.

  Isabella Beeton

  Ducks, White, Cooking

  Isabella Beeton (2006). “Mrs Beeton's Household Management”, p.428, Wordsworth Editions

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• There are times when born hollandaise heads, as well as nouveaux turbot freaks and recherche escargotphiles alike crave the saignet abundance of a New York steak.

  Gael Greene

  New York, Cooking, Freak

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• There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'

  Charles Dickens

  Coffee, Wine, Light

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.349

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• They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

  A. E. Housman

  Cooking, Meat, Arsenic

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.

  Richard Harris Barham

  Father, Cooking, Cucumbers

  Richard Harris Barham (1847). “The Ingoldsby Legends Or Mirth and Marvels”, p.357

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• To me, peanut butter is the breakfast of champions!

  Greg Louganis

  Cooking, Champion, Peanut Butter

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• TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pigs, Cooking, Culinary

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.229, University of Georgia Press

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• Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values of wine from a scientific point of view. We are convinced that scientists will thus perform a service to mankind, since at the same time they will help determine the measure beyond which its use is a misuse for all creation.

  Pope Pius XII

  Wine, Views, Cooking

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• Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.

  Lewis Carroll

  Cooking, Might, Culinary

  'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) ch. 7

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• When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn. The heart wakens from coma and its dyspnea ends. Its strengthening pulse is to cross over into campground, to believe that the world has not been altogether lost or, if lost, then not altogether in vain.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Believe, Heart, Cooking

  1951 The Hour.

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