Culinary Quotes - Page 14

• I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. In our house Thanksgiving was a time for sorrow.

  Rita Rudner

  Mother, Food, Turkeys

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Food, Men, Cooking

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• Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a text. The just-wed cook brings to the new household no carefully copied collection of the family's cherished recipes, but a spanking new edition of 'Fannie Farmer' or 'The Joy of Cooking'.

  John Thorne

  Food, Other Cultures, Joy

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• The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.

  Robin Williams

  Food, Cooking, Bread

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• The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

  Confucius

  Food, Cutting, Cooking

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• Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

  John Shelton Reed

  Wine, Europe, Southern

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• The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.

  George Ellwanger

  Food, Cooking, Onions

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• Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power of words which somehow will develop its qualities.

  Marcel Boulestin

  Food, Cooking, Quality

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• In the last analysis, a pickle is a cucumber with experience.

  Irena Chalmers

  Food, Cooking, Analysis

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• Nature will castigate those who don't masticate.

  Horace Fletcher

  Food, Cooking

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• Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Turkeys, Cooking

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• Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Cooking, Taste

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• The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Men, Cooking

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2012). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Cooking, Salad

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• SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Feelings

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.197, 谷月社

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• There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.

  E. W. Howe

  Food, Men, Sheep

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• The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.

  Fernand Point

  Food, Cooking, Generations

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• Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to think that the notoriously bad cooking of the English was an example to the contrary, and that the English cook the way they do because, through sheer technical deficiency, they had not been able to master the art of cooking. I have discovered to my stupefaction that the English cook that way because that is the way they like it.

  Waverley Root

  Country, Art, Food

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• Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.

  Bill Griffith

  Religious, Food, Vegetarianism

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• It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sight, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1839). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.86

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• I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism, Forever

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• The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.

  Art Buchwald

  Food, Water, Cooking

  New York Herald Tribune, December 29, 1960.

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• Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Food, Jewels, Cooking

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• Chicken may be eaten constantly without becoming nauseating.

  Andre Simon

  Food, Cooking, May

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• What is a turducken? An exclusive culinary creation available by special order from some little Cajun town down south. Entirely deboned, a turducken consists of a turkey, stuffed with duck, stuffed with a chicken, like an edible Russian nesting doll. Some were stuffed with alligator, crap, shrimp; my favorite was the traditional cornbread variety.

  S.A. Bodeen

  Order, Turkeys, Ducks

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