Culinary Quotes - Page 24

• The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.

  Dave Barry

  Trust, Food, Lakes

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• I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

  John Barrymore

  Good Morning, Food, Giving

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• The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.

  Mario Batali

  Smart, Paradise, Ingredients

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• I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.

  James Beard

  Believe, Food, Adversity

  James Beard (2015). “Delights and Prejudices”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

  George Best

  Drinking, Food, Beer

  "Beating Them at Their Own Game: How the Irish Conquered English Soccer". Book by Patrick West, 2006.

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• Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Inspirational, Food, Cooking

  "The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy".

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• In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Hands, Cooking

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• Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Art, Food, Cooking

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• NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Believe, Preparation, Secret

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation - he cooks with enjoyment, anticipation, spontaneity, and he is willing to experiment.

  Pearl Bailey

  Cooking, Preparation, Ingredients

  Pearl Bailey (1973). “Pearl's Kitchen: An Extraordinary Cookbook”, Harcourt

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• I eat merely to put food out of my mind.

  N. F. Simpson

  Food, Cooking, Mind

  N. F. Simpson (2013). “N. F. Simpson: Collected Plays: A Resounding Tinkle; The Hole; Gladly Otherwise; One Way Pendulum; The Cresta Run; Was He Anyone?; If So, Then Yes”, p.87, Faber & Faber

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• No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.

  Rube Goldberg

  Food, Cooking, Matter

  "The New York Comics And Picture-story Symposium: Jennifer George And Charles Kochman", therumpus.net. March 4, 2014.

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• Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Simple, Cooking

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.375, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Art, Food, Men

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.

  Julia Child

  Cooking

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• After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.

  Emily Luchetti

  Halloween, Food, Army

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• When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

  Gelett Burgess

  Inspirational, Food, Men

  Gelett Burgess (1937). “Look Eleven Years Younger”

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• Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

  Scott Adams

  Life, Food, Men

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.448, Penguin

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• Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

  Galileo Galilei

  Drinking, Food, Wine

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• Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Family, Food

  "Fictional character: The Book". "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/ Episode #1.1", www.imdb.com. January 1981.

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• As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

  Sandra Boynton

  Fun, Memories, Women

  "Chocolate: The Consuming Passion". Book by Sandra Boynton, 1982.

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• A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes.

  Melissa Fay Greene

  Sweet, Real, Food

  Melissa Fay Greene (2015). “Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction”, p.22, Da Capo Press

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• So you can settle the fuck down. My mother used to say, "Primero comemos, entonces lo demás." That means, "first we eat, then we do everything else."

  Brian Yorkey

  Food, Cooking, Firsts

  "13 Reasons Why: Tape 6, Side A". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2017.

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• Shake the hand that feeds you.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Hands, Healthy Eating

  "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto". Book by Michael Pollan, 2008.

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• I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Family, Book, Food

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.64, Algora Publishing

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