Food Quotes - Page 39

• In today's world, when many of yesterday's fashionable habits are today's misdemeanors, we should rejoice that a chocolate dessert can bring so much innocent pleasure.

  Marcel Desaulniers

  Yesterday, Chocolate, World

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• Cooking is not about being the best or most perfect cook, but rather it is about sharing the table with family and friends.

  Skye Gyngell

  Perfect, Cooking, Family And Friends

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• Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

  Marcel Boulestin

  Art, Home Cooking, Taste

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• The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

  Hippocrates

  Wise, Health, Blessing

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• Nothing stimulates the practiced cook's imagination like an egg.

  Irma S. Rombauer

  Eggs, Imagination, Cooking

  IRMA S ROMBAUER (1964). “VOLUME 2 APPETIZERS DESSERTS AND BAKED GOODS JOY OF COOKING”

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• There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic.

  Louis Diat

  Fire, Air, Water

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• The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.

  Carlo Petrini

  Simple, Quests, Taste

  Carlo Petrini (2007). “Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should be Good, Clean, and Fair”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Organic farming appealed to me because it involved searching for and discovering nature's pathways, as opposed to the formulaic approach of chemical farming. The appeal of organic farming is boundless; this mountain has no top, this river has no end.

  Eliot Coleman

  Rivers, Mountain, Pathways

  Eliot Coleman (1995). “The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener, 2nd Edition”, p.288, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture.' What sustainability depends on isn't agri- so much as culture.

  Raj Patel

  Believe, Agriculture, Doe

  Raj Patel (2009). “The Value Of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy”, p.170, Granta

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• Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Mother, People, Chef

  "Ottolenghi Brings the Mediterranean to America". Interview with Anna Monette Roberts, www.popsugar.com. October 24, 2013.

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• If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

  Jean Kerr

  Funny Inspirational, Loss, Leaving

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

  Cyril Connolly

  Loss, Purpose, Weight

  The Unquiet Grave Pt I

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• We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Drinking, Health, Funny Sarcastic

  Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) "On Eating and Drinking"

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• Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Drinking, Dirty, Naughty

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• I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started.

  Brendan Behan

  Drinking, Beer, Dry

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• I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Strong

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• Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Morning, Drinking, Beer

  Major Barbara (1907) act 2

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• Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.

  Billy Carter

  Party, Drinking, Home

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• To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

  Brendan Behan

  Beer, Drunk, Achievement

  Brendan Behan (1968). “The wit of Brendan Behan”

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• We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, Drinking, Beer

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• God made only water, but man made wine.

  Victor Hugo

  Wine, Men, Water

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• Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and revealed to him the art of making le vin. By the aid of this liquid he unveiled more and more truth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Art, Wine, Men

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• Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, Home, Cooking

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• Bacon bits are like the fairy dust of the food community.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Dust, Community, Fairy

  Jim Gaffigan (2014). “Food: A Love Story”, p.123, Crown Archetype

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• Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

  Juvenal

  Art, Philosophy, Two

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