Culinary Quotes - Page 30

• It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Food, Interesting

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• Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing.

  James Thurber

  Believe, Food, Cooking

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• I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

  Douglas Adams

  Nice, Rain, Food

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.279, Pan Macmillan

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• The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.

  Ogden Nash

  Food, Loss, Eggs

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• The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Food, Sunset

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 11

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• The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

  Adelle Davis

  Food, Cooking, Healthy

  Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”

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• The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Food, Sea

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• The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament.

  Monica Baldwin

  Food, Cooking, Sacraments

  Monica Baldwin (2016). “I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent”, p.30, Read Books Ltd

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• The right food always comes at the right time. Reliance on out-of-season foods makes the gastronomic year an endlessly boring repetition.

  Roy Andries De Groot

  Food, Years, Cooking

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• The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of daring modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and newmown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord - a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig's dung) back to the simple aromatics with which the piece began. The final blast of thyme died away; there was a round of applause; the lights went up.

  Aldous Huxley

  Simple, Keys, Light

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Work, Food, Inspiration

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

  Wallace Stevens

  Food, Ice Cream, Cooking

  "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" l. 7 (1923)

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• Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

  Robert Redford

  Food, Cooking, Healthy

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• You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

  Ronald Reagan

  Food, Character, Patriotic

  In New York Times 15 Jan. 1981

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• The white Aylesbury duck is, and deservedly, a universal favourite. Its snowy plumage and comfortable comportment make it a credit to the poultry-yard, while its broad and deep breast, and its ample back, convey the assurance that your satisfaction will not cease at its death.

  Isabella Beeton

  Food, Ducks, White

  Isabella Beeton (2006). “Mrs Beeton's Household Management”, p.428, Wordsworth Editions

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• Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.

  J. B. Priestley

  Revenge, Rivers, Yellow

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• Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Children, Food

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.113, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook.

  Euell Gibbons

  Food, Doors, Cake

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• It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Food, Men, Cooking

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...”, p.154

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• The confection made of Cacao called Chocolate or Chocoletto which may be had in diverse places in London, at reasonable rates, is of wonderful efficacy for the procreation of children: for it not only vehemently incites to Venus, but causes conception in women . . . and besides that it preserves health, for it makes such as take it often to become fat and corpulent, fair and amiable.

  William H. Coles

  Children, Food, Cooking

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• The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Food, Yellow, White

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• It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Uncles, Discovery, Medicine

  The Inimitable Jeeves (1923) ch. 16

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• Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Memories, Humorous, Food

  "The Theatre Omnibus".

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• Gluttony is not a secret vice.

  Orson Welles

  Food, Cooking, Secret

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• My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

  Orson Welles

  Food, Health, Weight Loss

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

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