Sauce Quotes

• It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.

  Alistair Cooke

  Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Doctrine

  Alistair Cooke (2015). “Talk About America: 1951–1968”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

  Orson Scott Card

  Rumor, Dry

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• An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Sin, Kitchen Confidential, Multitudes

  Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.133, A&C Black

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• Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.

  Alexis Soyer

  Food, Cooking, Foundation

  Alexis Soyer (1851). “The Modern Housewife: Or, Ménagère. Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts, for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, and Those for the Nursery and Sick Room; and Minute Directions for Family Management in All Its Branches. Illustrated with Engravings Including the Modern Housewife's Unique Kitchen, and Magic Stove”, p.88

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• A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

  Anton Chekhov

  Mean, Doe, Literature

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• In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.

  Fernand Point

  Food, Cooking, Kitchen

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  If a man does not have the sauce, then he is lost. But the same man can be lost in the sauce.

  Gucci Mane

  Men, Doe, Lost

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• If you want to sell a steak, you can't just have the sizzle, you gotta have sauce.

  Don King

  Want, Enthusiasm, Sizzling

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• Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Food, Cooking, Woe

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• Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.

  William Lethaby

  Art, Cooking, Special

  William Richard Lethaby (1982). “Lethaby, a Continuing Presence: Seven Essays Taken from Form in Civilization”

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• If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe.

  Paul Bocuse

  Mistake, Doctors, Ivy

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• What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

  Marcus Terentius Varro

  Gander, Geese

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Women, Made, Know How

  Octave Mirbeau (1911). “The Experiences of a Ladies' Maid”

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• I originate from a family where sauce is viewed as a refreshment.

  Erma Bombeck

  Thanksgiving, Refreshments

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• The steak ain't right without the A-1
  So I stay dipped in sauce and they come

  Mac Dre

  Hip Hop, Steak

  Song: She Neva Seen, 2004

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• There's no sauce in the world like hunger.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1719). “THE HISTORY OF THE RENOWNED DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA”, p.51

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• When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Birthday, Mother, Kids

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• It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Silence, Covering, Speak

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• Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

  Plutarch

  Fitness, Sweet, Relaxation

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• When life is hard and the day has been long, the ideal dinner is not four perfect courses, each in a lovely pool of sauce whose ambrosial flavors are like nothing ever before tasted, but rather something comforting and savory, easy on the digestion - something that makes one feel, if even for only a minute, that one is safe.

  Laurie Colwin

  Long, Perfect, Life Is Hard

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• If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It's pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Kids, Simple, Pasta

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• I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  Quoted in the New York Times, 5 May 1980.

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• You can pour melted ice cream on regular ice cream. It's like a sauce!

  Chris Pratt

  Ice Cream, Ice, Cream

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

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• The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. The next best vegetable is the jalapeno pepper. It has the virtue of turning salads into practical jokes.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Vegetables, Stupidity, Cooking

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Food, Cooking, World

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1733). “The history of the valorous and witty knight-errant don Quixote of the Mancha. Tr. by mr. Shelton, and mr. Blunt. Pr. from the quarto ed. of 1620. With cutts from Coypell. And several annotations and amendments, not in any former ed. With a preface”, p.31

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