Cooking Quotes - Page 12

• I like a Blackpool breakfast, me - 20 ciggies and a pot of tea.

  Paul O'Grady

  Food, Tea, Breakfast

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• I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

  Albert Einstein

  Food, Clothes, Kind

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• I love fruit, when it is expensive.

  Arthur Wing Pinero

  Food, Fruit, Culinary

  Arthur Wing Pinero (2007). “The Second Mrs. Tanqueray”, p.77, Broadview Press

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• I never met a Cab I didn't like.

  Graham Kerr

  Food, Culinary, Mets

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• I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Inspiration, Milk

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• I said to my wife, 'Where do you want to go for our anniversary?' She said, 'I want to go somewhere I've never been before.' I said, 'Try the kitchen.'

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Food, Humor

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• I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

  Aristophanes

  Food, Home, Vegetables

  Aristophanes, Douglass Parker (1969). “Four Comedies: Lysistrata; The Acharnians; The Congresswomen, Translated by Douglass Parker. The Frogs, Translated by Richmond Lattimore”, p.44, University of Michigan Press

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• I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, Should Have, Meals

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.270, Penguin

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• I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.

  Nigella Lawson

  Food, Thinking, Insecurity

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• I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Food, Eye, Order

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• I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.

  Samuel Pepys

  Food, Home, Wife

  Samuel Pepys (2000). “The Diary of Samuel Pepys”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a mom who worked in the restaurant business, I spent a lot of time fending for myself, eating alone - and recognizing how eating together made all the difference.

  Thomas Keller

  Mom, Brother, Food

  Thomas Keller (2016). “Bouchon”, p.2, Artisan Books

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• I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruit drops - red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Food, Orange, Jelly

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• I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

  S. J. Perelman

  Food, Teeth, Gone

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• I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

  Janet Flanner

  Food, Sea, Sailor

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• If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You are endangering your soul and the use of wine as well... Seek out some other wine good to your taste.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Food, Wine, Men

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• If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup.

  Louis Diat

  Food, Important, Essentials

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• If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.

  Roald Dahl

  Teacher, Food, Chocolate

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• If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Glasses, Hands

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• If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Travel, Food, Culinary

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• If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

  Lin Yutang

  Food, Serious, Culinary

  Yutang Lin (1936). “My country and my people”

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• If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Food, Blessing, Spices

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• If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Believe, Food, Men

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• If you want to know the people of a nation, I am sure you can judge a great deal more about them from their cooking and eating traditions than you can from the words and actions of their public officials.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Food, People, Judging

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• If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Food, Wine, Sleep

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