Food Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.

  Andy Rooney

  Cooking, Hunters, Vegetarian

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• Velveeta: you can eat it - or wax your car with it!

  Judy Garland

  Car, Cooking, Culinary

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• We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.

  Lin Yutang

  Color, Chinese, Teeth

  Yutang Lin (1939). “My country and my people”

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• We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wine, Cooking, Healthy

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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• What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Thanksgiving, Eye, Past

  1844 'The Pumpkin,' stanza 3.

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• What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.

  Andrew Marvell

  Apples, Cooking, Life Is

  'The Garden' (1681) st. 5

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• What you eat and drink is 50 percent of life.

  Gerard Depardieu

  Cooking, Drink, Culinary

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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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• When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.

  Jacques Pepin

  Moving, Thinking, Hands

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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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• Wine enlivens the human soul.

  Euripides

  Wine, Cooking, Soul

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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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• Wine was given us by God, not that we might be drunken, but that we might be sober. It is the best medicine when it has the best moderation to direct it. Wine was given to restore the body's weakness, not to overturn the soul's strength.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Wine, Medicine, Cooking

  Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), Saint John Chrysostom (1983). “A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church”

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• Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Cooking, Woe, Sauce

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• You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

  Compton Mackenzie

  Cooking, Pieces, Cucumbers

  'Vestal Fire' (1927) bk. 1, ch. 3

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• You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles.

  Henry Beard

  Knitting, Cooking, Reason Why

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• I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.

  Stevie Smith

  Vegetables, Knives, Cooking

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• Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Philosophy, Emotional, Blood

  Dorothy L Sayers (2009). “The Documents in the Case”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise I am a cinch to feed.

  Laurie Colwin

  House, Pet, Want

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• The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people.

  Laurie Colwin

  Numbers, People, Way

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• It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.

  Laurie Colwin

  Wise, Two, Cooking

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• It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.

  Margaret Halsey

  Thinking, Firsts, England

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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