Craig Claiborne famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
-- Craig Claiborne

#Children #Food #Play
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 #Food #Cooking
I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.
-- Craig Claiborne

#Writing #Taught #Opinion
When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.
-- Craig Claiborne

#Moving #Dancing #Dancer
Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie.
-- Craig Claiborne

#Food #Heart #Pie
There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.
-- Craig Claiborne

#Pie #Cold #Pot
He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.
-- Craig Claiborne

#Home #Cooking #Missionary
Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues.
-- Craig Claiborne

#Two #Giving #Water
For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man.
-- Craig Claiborne

#Drinking #Wine #Men
Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute.
-- Craig Claiborne

#Art #Military #Training
Cooking done with care is an act of love.
-- Craig Claiborne

#Cooking #Done #Care
Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.
-- Craig Claiborne

#Giants #Pandas #Santa

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