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Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.
I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.
Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.
The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food
I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?
I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.
Food should be consumed while chanting your mantra inwardly. This will purify the food and the mind at the same time.
I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart
Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner
I am not strict vegan, because I'm a hedonist pig. If I see a big chocolate cake that is made with eggs, I'll have it.
When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.
Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.
How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.
The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.
HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.
A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.
Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.
You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?
Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.
The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal.
I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.
In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.
Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters.
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.
The way I feel about it is: Beat me or feed me, but don't tease me. It's toy food; who needs it? Serve it to toy people.
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.
My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.
When there is very little else left to believe in, one can still believe in an honest loaf of fragrant, home-baked bread.
Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare indeed.
The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.
Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable
There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can.
Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue -- it drives away flies.
When the waitress asked if I wanted my pizza cut into four or eight slices, I said, 'Four. I don't think I can eat eight.'
The most powerful social media... it is not the internet, it is not Facebook - it is food. This connects all human beings.
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.
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?
Cooking is not about being the best or most perfect cook, but rather it is about sharing the table with family and friends.