Culinary Quotes - Page 12

• I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, People, Cooking

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• A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Real, Food, Self

  "An Alphabet for Gourmets". Book by M. F. K. Fisher, 1949.

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• If you're given champagne at lunch, there's a catch somewhere.

  Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons

  Food, Wine, Lunch

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• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Food, Drinking, Beer

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• I do not drink more than a sponge.

  Francois Rabelais

  Food, Wine, Beer

  "Gargantua", Book I., Chapter 5, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 204-07, 1922.

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• Revenge is a dish best served cold.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Revenge, Food, Animated Series

  "Fictional character: Khan Noonien Singh". "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", 1982.

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• The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition and returned four times on account of her cooking.

  Rex Stout

  Husband, Food, Cooking

  Rex Stout (2010). “Some Buried Caesar”, p.78, Crimeline

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• Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Numbers, Suffering

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• Never eat in a place called 'Mom's'.

  Nelson Algren

  Mom, Food, Cooking

  Nelson Algren (1983). “The Devil's Stocking”, New York : Arbor House Library of Contemporary Americana

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• A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.

  Maimonides

  Food, Wine, Glasses

  Moses Maimonides, Jacob Israel Dienstag (1994). “Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma”

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• So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.

  Auguste Escoffier

  Food, Long, People

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• Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Fitness, Dirty, Food

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• Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini.

  Mae West

  Food, Beer, Clothes

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• A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Men, Thinking

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.218, 谷月社

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• Lentils are friendly - the Miss Congeniality of the bean world.

  Laurie Colwin

  Food, Missing, Cooking

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• Champagne and orange juice is a great drink. The orange improves the champagne. The champagne definitely improves the orange.

  Philip the Apostle

  Drinking, Orange Juice, Champagne

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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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• My favorite animal is steak.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Life, Food, Animal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

  Julia Child

  Drinking, Food, Wine

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• One more drink and I'll be under the host.

  Mae West

  Sex, Women, Food

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• Despite everything I've achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the honorary degrees, I have never, ever lost sight of what's truly important. The thing that gives meaning to these triumphs. Someone to share them with. A companion. A help mate. A wife.

  Andrew Schneider

  Life, Military, Sight

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• Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex, it's more fun with someone who really likes it. I can't imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.

  Alan King

  Sex, Fun, Food

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• The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?

  Erma Bombeck

  Wall, Food, Track

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• Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Food, Cooking, Woe

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• Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

  Sheilah Graham Westbrook

  Food, Cooking, Comforting

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