Culinary Quotes - Page 13

• Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the weaker.

  Margaret Visser

  Food, Order, Cooking

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• But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.

  Jeffrey Steingarten

  Art, Goal, Comfort

  Jeffrey Steingarten (2011). “The Man Who Ate Everything”, p.5, Vintage

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• The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

  Fernand Braudel

  Food, Civilization, Smell

  Fernand Braudel (1992). “Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The structure of everyday life”, p.64, Univ of California Press

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• Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad, but bread is king.

  Louis Bromfield

  Country, Kings, Food

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• I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Food, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

  Rose Macaulay

  Food, Cooking, Culture

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific-and without science we are as the snakes and toads.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Drinking, Science

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2484, Delphi Classics

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• The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.

  Paul Bocuse

  Food, Mean, Cooking

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• Food doesn't exist, but can only be invented. And reinvented.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Food, Cooking

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• Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?

  Marilyn Monroe

  Food, Cooking

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• Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.

  James Cromwell

  Food, Pigs, Cooking

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• Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable it has original sin, and needs improvement. It can smell foul in the pot, linger through the house with pertinacity, and ruin a meal with its wet flab. Cabbage also has a nasty history of being good for you.

  Jane Grigson

  Food, Vegetables, Years

  Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press

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• Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.

  Solomon

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  King Solomon, “The Song Of Songs”

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• On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

  Athenaeus

  Wine, Glasses, Years

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• To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.

  Ludwig Bemelmans

  Father, Food, Cooking

  Ludwig Bemelmans (1964). “La bonne table”

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• You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.

  Elspeth Huxley

  Food, Apples, Cooking

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• A number of rare or newly experienced foods have been claimed to be aphrodisiacs. At one time this quality was even ascribed to the tomato. Reflect on that when you are next preparing the family salad.

  Jane Grigson

  Food, Numbers, Cooking

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• More people will die from hit-or-miss eating than from hit-and-run driving.

  Duncan Hines

  Running, Food, People

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• The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.

  Norman Douglas

  Food, Artist, Perfect

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.312, Courier Corporation

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• My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Food, Cooking, Mayonnaise

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• An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.

  Oliver Herford

  Food, Cooking, Make The Best Of It

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• Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue -- it drives away flies.

  Frederic Mistral

  Food, Joy, Cooking

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• I think the great Mexican cuisine is dying because there are fast foods now competing, because there are supermarkets, and supermarkets can't afford to keep in stock a lot of these very perishable products that are used for fine Mexican cooking. Women are working and real Mexican cooking requires enormous amounts of time.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Real, Food, Thinking

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• Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.

  Jane Grigson

  Food, Cooking, Delight

  Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Fruit Book”, p.160, U of Nebraska Press

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• I simply cannot imagine why anyone would eat something slimy served in an ashtray.

  Henry Beard

  Food, Cooking, Imagine

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