Culinary Quotes - Page 23

• I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you.

  Margi Clarke

  Karma, Food, Thinking

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• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Life, Food

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

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• In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.

  Curnonsky

  Art, Simple, Perfection

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• Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.

  Dorothy Allison

  Mother, Dream, Food

  Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.70, Penguin

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• If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

  Alexander Fleming

  Food, Wine, Cooking

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• I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

  Julia Child

  Love, Valentines Day, Nice

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Religion

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

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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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• Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

  Alton Brown

  Kitchen, Facts, Sometimes

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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, Cooking

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• There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within the pastry chef field. Some pastry chefs specialize in baking breads, while others are master cake designers. Each field requires an exceptional level of creativity and attention to detail.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Creativity, Cake, Details

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• The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

  William Penn

  Food, Cooking, Volume

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.127

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• Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperors orgy is now a democratic institution. 'Topless Pizza Lunch'.

  Alistair Cooke

  Food, Cutting, Lunch

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• The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Food, Vegetarianism, Two

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• If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.

  Jonathan Aitken

  Food, Glasses, Hands

  Jonathan Aitken (1971). “Land of Fortune: A Study of the New Australia”, London : Secker and Warburg

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• Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life...but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat - these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country.

  Roald Dahl

  Country, Memories, Children

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

  Lewis Carroll

  Food, Yesterday, Cooking

  Though the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

  Raymond Chandler

  Food, Angel, Cooking

  1940 Of Moose Malloy. Farewell, My Lovely, ch.1.

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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, Cooking, Plates

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• I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

  Julia Child

  Inspiration, Food, Home Cooking

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• Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Madness

  Ambrose Bierce (2004). “The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary”, p.41, See Sharp Press

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• Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

  Phil Donahue

  Children, Food, Missing

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• Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Cooking, Secret

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Night, Eight

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

  W. H. Auden

  Food, Cooking, Murder

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