Culinary Quotes - Page 32

• Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Food, Cooking

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• I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'

  Jay Leno

  Girl, Food, Mcdonalds

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• Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Life, Children, Humorous

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Oct 04, 2010

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• Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are.

  Matt Lauer

  Funny, Marijuana, Two

  "The hard shell" by Richard Johnson, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2006.

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• My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah, I guess I'm a little bit obsessed.

  Emeril Lagasse

  New York, New Orleans, Office

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• I was on the board of Andre Agassi's foundation, and seeing the way it operated blew my mind. In 2002, I told my wife, I want to start a foundation to give back, I want it to be for kids in hard circumstances, and I want it to be culinary-driven, because that's who I am.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Kids, Who I Am, Giving

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• I launched The Emeril Lagasse Foundation to provide culinary training, and developmental and educational programs to children in the cities where my restaurants operate. I think everyone has a responsibility to give back to the community if they can, and to help future generations learn new skills.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Children, Educational, Responsibility

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• God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

  Franz Kafka

  Tattoo, Food, Nuts

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• So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

  Franz Kafka

  Food, Long, Cooking

  "Investigations of a Dog". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

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• We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Food, Wine, Cooking

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

  James Huneker

  Summer, Food, July

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• What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.

  Andrew Marvell

  Food, Apples, Cooking

  'The Garden' (1681) st. 5

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• There are two kinds of people in this world: the ones who don't cook out of and have NEVER cooked out of THE I HATE TO COOK BOOK, and the other kind...The I HATE TO COOK people consist mainly of those who find other things more interesting and less fattening, and so they do it as seldom as possible. Today there is an Annual Culinary Olympics, with hundreds of cooks from many countries ardently competing. But we who hate to cook have had our own Olympics for years, seeing who can get out of the kitchen the fastest and stay out the longest.

  Peg Bracken

  Country, Hate, Book

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• No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.

  Eden Phillpotts

  Food, Heart, Mean

  Eden Phillpotts (1906). “The Portreeve”

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• The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

  Waverley Root

  Food, Vegetables, Cooking

  Waverley Root (1996). “Food”, William S. Konecky Associates

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• Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.

  Raymond Sokolov

  Islands, Lunch, Manhattan

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• Luncheon: as much food as one's hand can hold.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Lunch

  Samuel Johnson, E. L. McAdam, George Milne (1963). “Johnson's Dictionary: A Modern Selection”, p.240, Courier Corporation

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• One should never refuse an invitation to lunch or dinner, for one never knows what one may have to eat the next day.

  Edouard de Pomiane

  Lunch, Next Day, May

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• One man's Poison Ivy is another Fellow's Spinach.

  George Ade

  Leadership, Sports, Food

  "Hand-made Fables".

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• Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, Food, Boys

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• I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Food, Men, Cooking

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.258

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• Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute.

  Craig Claiborne

  Art, Military, Training

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• People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding fresh lime juice to scalloped potatoes try to understand that there must be a reason for this.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Years, People

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.127, Vintage

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• I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff.

  Prince Philip

  Funny, Home, Cooking

  In 'Observer' 28 Oct. 1962

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• It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.

  Waverley Root

  Food, Destiny, Cooking

  Waverley Root (1996). “Food”, William S. Konecky Associates

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