Food Quotes - Page 29

• 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

  Athenaeus

  Cooking, Age, Culinary

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• You take romance - I'll take Jell-O.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Romance, Cooking, Culinary

  Song: A Fine Romance, Album: Ella and Louis Again

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• Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.

  Charles Dickens

  Doors, Smell, House

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories”, p.54, Penguin

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• Some hours after eating this dish [lièvre à la royale, which contains 20 cloves of garlic and twice that quantity of shallots], there is a peculiar sensation of liberation in the head. and it is sensation of smell.

  Patience Gray

  Smell, Peculiar, Garlic

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• A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.

  Willa Cather

  Men, Years, Soup

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.38, Vintage

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• One whiff of a savory aromatic soup and appetites come to attention. The steaming fragrance of a tempting soup is a prelude to the goodness to come. An inspired soup puts family and guests in a receptive mood for enjoying the rest of the menu.

  Louis Pullig De Gouy

  Guests, Soup, Attention

  Louis Pullig De Gouy (1949). “The Soup Book: 770 Recipes”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• It is thought that potato water is unhealthy; and therefore do not boil potatoes in soup, but boil elsewhere, and add them when nearly cooked.

  Catharine Beecher

  Water, Soup, Potatoes

  Catharine Beecher (2013). “Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• This is not that, and that is certainly not this, and at the same time an oyster stew is not stewed, and although they are made of the same things and even cooked almost the same way, an oyster soup should never be called a stew, nor stew soup.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Oysters, Soup, Way

  M. F. K. Fisher (2016). “Consider the Oyster”, p.71, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too long whilst it cools. Soup should be brought to table only moderately warm.

  Charlie Day

  Long, People, Waiting

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• And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. The lore has not died out of the world, and you will still find people who believe that soup will cure any hurt or illness and is no bad thing to have for the funeral either.

  John Steinbeck

  Hurt, Believe, People

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.173, Penguin

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• Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those libels on civilized cookery, called DUMPLINGS! One might about as well eat, with the hope of digesting, a brick from the ruins of Babylon, as one of the hard, heavy masses of boiled dough which usually pass under this name.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Names, Soup, May

  Sarah Josepha Hale (2012). “Early American Cookery: "The Good Housekeeper," 1841”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

  Lord Byron

  Drinking, Beer, Thinking

  "The Deformed Transformed". Book by Lord Byron, 1824.

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• The kitchen, reasonably enough, was the scene of my first gastronomic adventure. I was on all fours. I crawled into the vegetable bin, settled on a giant onion and ate it, skin and all. It must have marked me for life, for I have never ceased to love the hearty flavor of raw onions.

  James Beard

  Heart, Adventure, Vegetables

  James Beard (2015). “Delights and Prejudices”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• Pray how does your asparagus perform?

  John Adams

  Vegetables, Cooking, Asparagus

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.174, UPNE

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• Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey?

  Jeff Smith

  Memories, Order, Grit

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• The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.

  Sydney Smith

  Life, Science, World

  Sydney Smith (1856). “Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.278

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• Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.

  Jeff Smith

  Art, Expression, Creative

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• Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

  Robert A. Burton

  Art, Science, Cooking

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• How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.

  Jeff Smith

  Godly, Eggplant, Color

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• You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

  Henry Miller

  America, Cooking, Pieces

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Intimate Henry Miller”

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• You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway.

  Scott Adams

  Funny, Wise, Country

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• Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.

  Scott Adams

  Jobs, Yogurt, Spoons

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.222, Penguin

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• I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.

  John Gould

  Children, Thinking, Pie

  John Gould (2015). “The House That Jacob Built”, p.124, Down East Books

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• I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.

  James Beard

  Simple, Cooking, Cookies

  James Beard (2015). “The New James Beard”, p.533, Open Road Media

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• I've long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs. There are few sights that appeal to me more than the streaks of lean and fat in a good side of bacon, or the lovely round of pinkish meat framed in delicate white fat that is Canadian bacon. Nothing is quite as intoxicating as the smell of bacon frying in the morning, save perhaps the smell of coffee brewing.

  James Beard

  Morning, Coffee, White

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