Food Quotes - Page 37

• What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

  Erma Bombeck

  Thanksgiving, Mean, Talking

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.271, Open Road Media

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• Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

  Julia Child

  Cooking, Culinary

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• Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.

  Julia Child

  Block, Cooking, Everyday

  Julia Child, E. S. Yntema (1979). “Julia Child & more company”, Knopf

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• Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?

  Julia Child

  Cooking, Kitchen, Lambs

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from May 15, 2012

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• I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.... Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile...then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile.

  Julia Child

  Believe, Thinking, Cooking

  "My Life In France". Book by Julia Child, p. 71, 2006.

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• The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable price, but no one mentioned that the result usually tasted like the stuffing inside of a teddy bear.

  Julia Child

  Records, Poultry, Bears

  Julia Child (2009). “My Life in France”, p.173, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Drinking, Beer

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [124]

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• Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.

  Jonathan Swift

  Kissing, Cooking, Bread

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1778). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Notes Historical and Critical”, p.182

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• I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.

  John William Van Druten

  Coffee, Thinking, Espresso

  Quoted in Think, Feb 1963.

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• When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Winning, Cooking, Culinary

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• The appetite grows with eating.

  Francois Rabelais

  Eating, Appetite, Grows

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• A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Catching Fire, Vinegar, Bees And Honey

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.117, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• And Honey, I miss you and I'm being good.
  And I'd love to be with you if only I could.

  Bobby Goldsboro

  Missing, Popular Song, Honey

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• When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Angel, Cooking

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• I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

  Albert Einstein

  Animal, Flesh, Vegetarian

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.454, Princeton University Press

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• Let things taste the way they are.

  Alice Waters

  Way, Taste

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• The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.

  Eric Schlosser

  Practice, Trying, Tobacco Industry

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 14, 2006.

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• We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese.

  Catherine Bertini

  Mean, Needs, Definitions

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• We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

  C. S. Lewis

  Science, Half, May

  Christian Reflections Para. 22 (p. 111)

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• Hope is the poor man's bread.

  George Herbert

  Life, Hope, Men

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.306

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• If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

  Leigh Hunt

  Loss, Hunting, Support

  1851 Table- Talk,'Eating'.

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• Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

  Craig Claiborne

  Art, Home Cooking, Love And Respect

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• He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Giving, Meals, Attention

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• If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

  Lisa Alther

  Vegetables, Improvement, Dessert

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• Beaten biscuits: This is the most laborious of cakes, and also the most unwholesome, even when made in the best manner. We do not recommend it; but there is no accounting for tastes. Children would not eat these biscuits-nor grown persons either, if they can get any other sort of bread. When living in a town where there are bakers, there is no excuse for making Maryland biscuit. Believe nobody that says they are not unwholesome. . . . Better to live on Indian cakes.

  Eliza Leslie

  Children, Believe, Cake

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