Food Quotes - Page 38

• People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare.

  Ted Allen

  People, Meals, Want

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• This work, though it deals only with eating and drinking, which are regarded in the eyes of our supernaturalistic mock-culture as the lowest acts, is of the greatest philosophic significance and importance... How former philosophers have broken their heads over the question of the bond between body and soul! Now we know, on scientific grounds, what the masses know from long experience, that eating and drinking hold together body and soul, that the searched-for bond is nutrition.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Drinking, Eye, Long

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• Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

  Emmanuel Levinas

  Order, Desire, Hungry

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• Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Art, Sight, Two

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1998). “Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art”, p.38, Oxford University Press

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• Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

  Alain de Botton

  People, Tolerance, Together

  "Alain de Botton: 'Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance'". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2012.

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• A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

  Julia Child

  Recipes, Cookbook, Poorest

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Celebrity has its uses. I can always get a seat in any restaurant.

  Julia Child

  Use, Restaurants, Seats

  "Julia Child: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. June 2001.

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• I believe in red meat. I often said: red meat and gin.

  Julia Child

  Believe, Meat, Red

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• Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are impoverished and stretches its resources to give a hearty sustenance and cheer? Who warms you
  in the winter and cools you in the summer? Yet who also is capable of doing honor
  to your richest table and impressing your most demanding guests? Soup does its
  loyal best, no matter what undignified conditions are imposed upon it. You don't
  catch steak hanging around when you're poor and sick, do you?

  Judith Martin

  Summer, Cheer, Winter

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• The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry
  is like the potato. The best part is underground.

  Thomas Overbury

  Men, Potatoes, Ancestry

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• Garlic is as good as ten mothers.

  Les Blank

  Mother, Cooking, Garlic

  "Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers". Documentary, 1980.

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• My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where
  the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry
  meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.

  Pearl Bailey

  Past, Bridges, Cooking

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• When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are
  broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.

  Marcel Proust

  Past, Smell, Long

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

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• The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.

  Mario Batali

  Grandma, Italian, Thinking

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• I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.

  Graham Kerr

  Dessert First, Perfect, Cooking

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• Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.

  Julia Child

  Mean, Cooking, Kitchen

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• A party without cake is really just a meeting.

  Julia Child

  Party, Cake, Kitchen

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• To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Health, Exercise, Cost

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• Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Cooking, Would Be

  In William Roberts (ed.) 'Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs Hannah More' (1834) vol. 1, p. 251

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• My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.

  W. C. Fields

  Baby, Health, Doctors

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• I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows.

  Mariah Carey

  Funny, Hilarious, Swimming

  "The wit and wisdom of Mariah Carey". Interview with Aaron Hicklin, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2014.

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• If music be the food of love, play on.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.

  Philip Sidney

  Sweet, Knowledge, Cooking

  Sir Philip Sidney (1831). “The Defence of Poesy”, p.16

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• Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

  W. H. Davies

  Sympathy, Beer, Men

  Shorter Lyrics of the 20th Century, Introduction

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• The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

  Cyril Connolly

  Solitude, Vices, Literature

  David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1983). “Cyril Connolly: journal and memoir”, HarperCollins

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