Food Quotes - Page 30

• Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.

  Anthony Powell

  Wine, Two, Cooking

  'The Acceptance World' (1955) ch. 4

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• Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.

  Jim Davis

  Lunch, Cooking, Rogues

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• I went to this restaurant last night that was set up like a big buffet in the shape of an Ouija board. You'd think about what kind of food you want, and the table would move across the floor to it.

  Steven Wright

  Kindness, Moving, Night

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• Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

  Lord Byron

  Apples, Cooking, Dinner

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• Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.

  Christopher Morley

  Animal, Thinking, Cooking

  Christopher Morley (2007). “Chimneysmoke”, p.52, Wildside Press LLC

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• That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

  Lord Byron

  People, Hunger, Feds

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.241, Routledge

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• Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute.

  Jeff Smith

  Cooking, Recipes, Forget

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• Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish. Rather than being reprimanded, they were often hauled into the dining room and flogged in the presence of the guests.

  Jeff Smith

  Mistake, Dining, Guests

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• Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.

  Jeff Smith

  Wine, Vegetables, Half

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• The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one.

  Jeff Smith

  Squids, Greek, Body

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• There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

  Paul Goodman

  People, Done, Damage

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• Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Thinking, Sharks

  Lord Byron (2017). “Don Juan”, p.102, BookRix

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• According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.

  John Gerard

  Oil, Cooking, Four

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• And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.

  Lord Byron

  Coffee, Thinking, Hands

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

  Lord Byron

  Kids, Holiday, Cooking

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex, it's more fun with someone who really likes it. I can't imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.

  Alan King

  Sex, Fun, People

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• Hell is probably quite similar to most Paris bistros ... a bit overheated, somewhat too crowded, and a little too noisy for my tastes. The waiters will surely treat you rudely and the cashiers will always add a few extra francs to your bill but ... and this is the important part ... the food will be marvelous.

  Henry Miller

  Paris, Cooking, Important

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• How simple life is. We buy a fish. We are fed. We sit close to each other, we talk and then we go to bed.

  Gary Johnson

  Simple, Cooking, Bed

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• I always plan dinner first thing in the morning. That's the only way I can get through the day, having a specific meal to look forward to at night.

  Alan King

  Morning, Night, Cooking

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• I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.

  Jeff Smith

  Coffee, Cooking, Rabbits

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• I prefer the Chinese method of eating.... You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.

  Jeff Smith

  Cooking, Chinese, Tables

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• If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep to that, I verily trow that he might leeve for ever, without dying at a', and that doctors and kirkyards would og oot o' fashion.

  James Hogg

  Fashion, Doctors, Drunk

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• It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Interesting, Cooking

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• Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing.

  James Thurber

  Believe, Cooking, Looks

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• Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!

  Jeff Smith

  Simple, Vegetables, Cooking

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