Culinary Quotes - Page 27

• Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.

  Emmanuel des Essarts

  Food, Giving, Cooking

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• PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Portugal

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.185, University of Georgia Press

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• I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.

  Izaak Walton

  Queens, Food, Men

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (2014). “The Compleat Angler”, p.151, OUP Oxford

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• Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie.

  Craig Claiborne

  Food, Heart, Pie

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• It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Writing, Reality

  The Gastronomical Me foreword (1943).

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• It is contrary to the will of God to eat delicate food hastily.

  Zhang Zhao

  Food, Cooking, Gods Will

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• It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and then eaten with a fork. Ladies should be particularly careful how they manage so ticklish a dainty, lest the exhibition rub off a little desirable romance.

  Charlie Day

  Food, Knives, Romance

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• It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.

  Ruth Reichl

  Food, Cooking, Dishes

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• It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.

  Virginia Woolf

  Food, Cooking, Novelists

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2616, Delphi Classics

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• It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit down to them from time to time. It was largesse that made us all; we were not created to fast forever... Enter here, therefore, as a sovereign remedy for the narrowness of our minds and the stinginess of our souls.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Food, Forever, Cooking

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• It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite... fun, but not joy; acquaintances, but not friends; leisure, but not peace. You can have the husk of everything for money, but not the kernel.

  Arne Garborg

  Fun, Food, Joy

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• My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet they are dry. They have weight, but they are light. Airy, yet substantial. Earth, air, fire, water; velvet and elastic! Meat, wheat and magic! They are our family glory!

  Robert P. T. Coffin

  Food, Fire, Light

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• Mustard's no good without roast beef.

  Leonard Marx

  Food, Cooking, Beef

  "Fictional character: Chico". "Monkey Business", www.imdb.com. 1931.

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• It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.

  Kingsley Amis

  Food, Cooking, Dry

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• RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Bankers

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• The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

  Ben Bradlee

  Food, Cooking, Champagne

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• I like to say, Chop sueys the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another, because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means tsap sui, which, if you translate back, means odds and ends.

  Jennifer Lee

  Mean, Odds, Chinese

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• When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

  Euripides

  Money, Food, Men

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• Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

  Nora Ephron

  Women, Food, Memorable

  Nora Ephron (1984). “Crazy Salad Plus Nine”

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• Grilling, broiling, barbecuing - whatever you want to call it - is an art, not just a matter of building a pyre and throwing on a piece of meat as a sacrifice to the gods of the stomach.

  James Beard

  Art, Food, Sacrifice

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• Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

  Robert A. Burton

  Art, Food, Science

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• How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.

  Jeff Smith

  Food, Godly, Eggplant

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• Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

  Jeff Smith

  Joy, Cooking, Heat

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