Culinary famous quotes
04-09-2025
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
-- A. J. Liebling -
The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.
-- Adelle Davis -
Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.
-- Andrew Marvell -
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
-- Anthony Trollope -
A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.
-- Anton Chekhov -
So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.
-- Auguste Escoffier -
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
-- Ben Bradlee -
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.
-- Bruce Jay Friedman -
Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible.
-- Catharine Beecher -
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.
-- Clifton Fadiman -
A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.
-- Curt Siodmak -
When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore.
-- Diane Mott Davidson -
People are cooking less but obsessing about it more.
-- Dougie Poynter -
It's food too fine for angels, yet come, take and eat thy fill!
-- Edward Taylor -
Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.
-- Eli Wallach -
I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days.
-- Elizabeth McCracken -
Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!
-- Elsa Maxwell -
No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.
-- Emily Post -
The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.
-- Emmanuel des Essarts -
It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.
-- Finley Peter Dunne -
He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head.
-- Ford Madox Ford -
Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?
-- Frank Bruni -
Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer -
What you eat and drink is 50 percent of life.
-- Gerard Depardieu -
My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' You can't take it seriously. But you can't ignore it, either. It takes ahold of your head and that's it. You are a pumpkin. Or you are not. I am.
-- Harrison Salisbury -
As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.
-- Hattie McDaniel -
The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
-- Hector Hugh Munro -
You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles.
-- Henry Beard -
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.
-- Henry George Bohn -
All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.
-- Hugh Casson -
The soufflé is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both become quite tractable and are great glamorizers for leftover foods.
-- Irma S. Rombauer -
Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.
-- Isabella Beeton -
It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.
-- Izaak Walton -
Reward is a happy customer - and an empty plate.
-- Jacques Torres -
Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.
-- James Beard -
I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.
-- James Beard -
I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.
-- Janet Flanner -
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste.
-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.
-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.
-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
And now, dear Lord, I cannot wait Because I have a luncheon date.
-- John Betjeman -
Velveeta: you can eat it - or wax your car with it!
-- Judy Garland -
Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.
-- Julia Child -
When you're eating something and your palate tells you what's missing, that's when you start combining.
-- Justin Quek -
Seafood on the grill can be intimidating if you don't know what you are doing. It's really quite easy
-- Kevin Steele -
My culinary wardrobe is the same as my biking wardrobe, just no shoes.
-- Lela Rose -
If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.
-- Lin Yutang -
Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.
-- Louis Kronenberger -
Clam chowder is one of those subjects, like politics or religion, that can never be discussed lightly. Bring it up even incidentally, and all the innumerable factions of the clam bake regions raise their heads and begin to yammer.
-- Louis Pullig De Gouy -
The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
-- Margaret Halsey -
This has got to be the most expensive food ever laminated.
-- Marian Burros -
The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament.
-- Monica Baldwin -
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
-- Nora Ephron -
Bring me an order of escargots, but hold the slugs.
-- Orson Bean -
Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
-- Pliny the Elder -
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I know my limit. I just keep passing out before I reach it.
-- Red Skelton -
The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.
-- Redd Foxx -
Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and light and still warm from the frying. Not too sugary.
-- Robert Crais -
It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.
-- Ruth Reichl -
Red wine with fish. That should have told me something.
-- Sean Connery -
Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.
-- Spike Milligan -
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.
-- Truman Capote -
The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.
-- Victor Hugo -
Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
-- W. H. Auden -
The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
-- Wallace Stevens -
I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.
-- Wilhelm II -
When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.
-- William Feather -
All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.
-- William Feather -
Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.
-- William Kitchiner -
Ethnic, cultural, artistic and culinary diversity. LA...a feast for the senses.
-- Yasmine Bleeth -
Mexican food is one of the best culinary experiences that people can have.
-- Karla Souza -
It is contrary to the will of God to eat delicate food hastily.
-- Zhang Zhao -
People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing. They flew me over, and it was this immersive experience.
-- Adam Richman -
I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.
-- Action Bronson -
The soufflé is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both become quite tractable and are great glamorizers for leftover foods.
-- Irma S. Rombauer
