Cooking Quotes - Page 36

• Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Wine, Drunk

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.17, 谷月社

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• Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Religion, Sauce

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.162, University of Georgia Press

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• I work very hard at relationships. I've done the thing of being home. I worked all day and came home and did all the stuff at home that a woman is supposed to do, the cooking and the entertaining. I'm a perfectionist, and, besides, I loved all those things.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Home, Done, Stuff

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• I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Italian, Japan, Talking

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• An army marches on its stomach.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Food, Army

  Attributed in Wash. Post, 18 Sept. 1898. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, this was "probably condensed from a long passage in E. A. de Las Cases Memorial de Ste-Helene (1823) vol. 4, 14 Nov. 1816; also attributed to Frederick the Great, in Notes and Queries 10 March 1866." The 1866 attribution to Frederick is worded "an army moves on (or by) its stomach."

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• You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Kitchen, Age, Paychecks

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• The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure.

  Anthony Bourdain

  People, Noble, Calling

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• My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years.

  Tom Brady

  Sports, Thinking, Years

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

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• I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue from different angles, from different points of view, from different presentation styles, that really makes things sink in and become embedded.

  Alton Brown

  Thinking, Views, Issues

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• Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.

  Alton Brown

  Children, Pbs, Gourmet

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• 'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.

  Alton Brown

  Dark, Men, Elbows

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• To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Food, Wine, Guests

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• The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

  Lewis Carroll

  Food, Yesterday, Promise

  Though the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

  Bennett Cerf

  Food, Soup, Noise

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• It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

  Julia Child

  Food, Culinary, Plates

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• I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.

  Julia Child

  Important, World, Wells

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• In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.

  Julia Child

  People, Fancy, Cuisine

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• My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

  Winston Churchill

  Food, Years, Two

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• I really liked the food in Japan. There is something so organized, neat, and methodical about it. They put a lot of care and quality into their cooking. I also love Mediterranean, New American, and Italian food, because the cuisines borrow influences from all over the world.

  Sasha Cohen

  Italian, Japan, Quality

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• If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Women, Food, Memorable

  "Close to Colette". Book by Maurice Goudeket, 1956.

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• I think people are more savvy about cooking, food and dining. I notice they are looking for more value for their money - not in larger portions but more in terms of healthier, fresh, farm-to-table dishes with a nice presentation.

  Cat Cora

  Nice, Thinking, People

  "Chef Cat Cora Dishes on Healthy Cooking". "Good Morning America" with Diane Henderiks, abcnews.go.com. April 23, 2012.

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• I use a lot of fresh citrus, garlic, and fresh herbs when cooking to cut down on fat and sodium but punch up flavor. Our cupboards and fridge are full of condiments - mustards, vinegars, etc. that also add tons of flavor but are low in fat, calories, or other processed additives.

  Cat Cora

  Cutting, Sodium, Add

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• When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.

  Cat Cora

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

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• Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?

  Sloane Crosley

  Two, Jumping, World

  "I want to be alone: the rise and rise of solo living". Interview with Eric Klinenberg, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

  Clarence Darrow

  Hate, Humorous, Food

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