Culinary Quotes - Page 21

• Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.

  Julia Child

  Block, Food, Cooking

  Julia Child, E. S. Yntema (1979). “Julia Child & more company”, Knopf

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• Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to fix one's mistakes, or live with them, was an important part of becoming a cook.

  Julia Child

  Mistake, Food, Heart

  Julia Child (2009). “My Life in France”, p.78, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Fighting, Iron

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 7, l. [166]

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• Cooking is so popular today because it's the perfect mix of food and fun.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Fun, Food, Perfect

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• Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.

  Charlie Trotter

  Food, Cooking, Way

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• Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.

  Leigh Hunt

  Morning, Food, World

  Leigh Hunt (1840). “The Seer: Or, Common-places Refreshed”, p.27

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• If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Food, Complaining, World

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• Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Food, Cooking, Humans

  Mary Catherine Bateson (1985). “With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson”, Pocket Books

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• Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy.

  Nigella Lawson

  Believe, Food, Cake

  Nigella Lawson (2012). “How To Be A Domestic Goddess”, p.20, Random House

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• Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

  Walt Kelly

  Real, Food, Cooking

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• We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow.

  Lee Iacocca

  Morning, Food, Forever

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• I’d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.

  Sylvia Plath

  Witty, Food, Thinking

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.16, Hamilton Books

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• Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Funny, Christmas, Food

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• The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.

  David Aaron Kessler

  Horse, Food, Government

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• Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.

  Carlo Petrini

  Food, Government, Cooking

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• That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted.

  Lou Costello

  Ice Cream, Soda, Famous Last Words

  Last words, 1859.

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• Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Girl, Food, Wine

  Poor Richard's Almanack (1734)

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• Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted.

  Marilyn Kaytor

  Food, Taken, Cooking

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• The greatest dishes are very simple.

  Auguste Escoffier

  Simple, Cooking, Dishes

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• To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.

  Alistair Cooke

  Food, Cowboy, People

  Alistair Cooke (1979). “The Americans: Fifty Letters from America on Our Life and Times”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

  Douglas Adams

  Mistake, Food, Thinking

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.422, Pan Macmillan

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• The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.

  Abraham Hayward

  Nice, Food, Class

  Abraham Hayward (1858). “Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections”, p.391

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• Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table.

  Amanda Bennett

  Food, Airplane, Sea

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• When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.

  Andre Soltner

  Food, Jewels, Cooking

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• Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Food, Cooking, Culture

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