Food Quotes - Page 32

• It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

  Roseanne Barr

  Being Happy, Weight Loss, Dieting

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• The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.

  Dave Barry

  Trust, Lakes, Sea

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• I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

  John Barrymore

  Good Morning, Giving, Cooking

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• We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

  Mario Batali

  Spring, Yellow, Onions

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January/February 2004.

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• Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Two, Poetry

  "Baudelaire as a literary critic".

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• I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

  James Beard

  Home Cooking, Gourmet, Beard

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• I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

  George Best

  Drinking, Beer, Drug

  "Beating Them at Their Own Game: How the Irish Conquered English Soccer". Book by Patrick West, 2006.

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• Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Cooking, Bread, Sides

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.43, 谷月社

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• Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Cooking, Madness, Culinary

  Ambrose Bierce (2004). “The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary”, p.41, See Sharp Press

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• Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wise, Men, Garden

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.25, 谷月社

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• Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wine, Drunk, Cooking

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.17, 谷月社

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• Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Cooking, Religion, Sauce

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.162, University of Georgia Press

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• Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Memories, Powerful, Play

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal”, p.6, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.

  Jo Brand

  Sex, Heart, Men

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• I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Funny, Humorous, Good Day

  Quoted in Alpheus T. Mason's Brandies: A Free Man's Life (p. 145)

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• Grub first, then ethics.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Cooking, Firsts, Ethics

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• When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Drinking, Beer, Funny Sarcastic

  Jimmy Breslin (1986). “Table money”

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• To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Wine, Cooking, Guests

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• Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

  Lord Byron

  Drinking, Salad, Becoming

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.12, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Lovely, May, Lasts

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• Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

  Truman Capote

  Travel, Italian, Venice

  In Observer 26 Nov. 1961

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• One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

  George Washington Carver

  Mind, Dinner, Helping

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