Culinary Quotes - Page 35

• A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.

  Curt Siodmak

  Men, Baths, Steak

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• The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.

  Judith Martin

  Food, Teaching, Accomplishment

  Judith Martin (1990). “Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• I have no truck with lettuce, cabbage, and similar chlorophyll. Any dietitian will tell you that a running foot of apple strudel contains four times the vitamins of a bushel of beans.

  S. J. Perelman

  Running, Food, Apples

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• Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Food, Lakes, Sea

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• I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you're hungry for power.

  Dick Cavett

  Food, Cooking, Chinese

  "Okay, So He's Not Johnny Carson - but Cavett's on Broadway and Back for More Talk on TV" by Martha Smilgis, people.com. October 17, 1977.

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• Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.

  Andy Rooney

  Food, Cooking, Towns

  Andy Rooney (2009). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.263, PublicAffairs

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• Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them.

  John Haines

  Dream, Food, Yellow

  John Haines (1996). “The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer: Collected Poems”

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• My mother didn't really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container accidentally ended up in the pie and she decided cooking took too much concentration.

  William of Norwich

  Mother, Food, Keys

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• The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the menus, but they are not French fries any longer. They are a furry-textured substance with the taste of plastic wood.

  Russell Baker

  Country, Food, America

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• Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Food, Cooking

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.95

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• Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Food, Cooking, Kitchen

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.354, Modern Library

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• Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.

  L. M. Boyd

  Love, Sex, Food

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• MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Body

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.720, Library of America

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• I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Food, Character

  Letter to Sarah Bache, January 26, 1784.

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• Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.

  Michael Pollan

  Long, Junk, Want

  Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.7, Penguin

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• Seafood on the grill can be intimidating if you don't know what you are doing. It's really quite easy

  Kevin Steele

  Intimidating, Easy, Knows

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• First, knife skills. Then, knowing how to control heat. Most important is choosing the right product .. the rest is simple.

  Justin Quek

  Simple, Knowing, Knives

  "Franco-Asian exotica on Singapore skyline". Interview with Daniel Magnowski, www.reuters.com. August 23, 2011.

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• How do they taste? They taste like more.

  H. L. Mencken

  Food, Cooking, Taste

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• Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

  Epictetus

  Food, Passion, Cooking

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• The onion is the truffle of the poor.

  Robert J Courtine

  Food, Cooking, Onions

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• When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

  Craig Claiborne

  Moving, Food, Dancing

  "Food and Drink: A Book of Quotations". Book by Susan L. Rattiner, September 19, 2012.

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• I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

  Kingsley Amis

  Food, Cooking, Sometimes

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• My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Food, White, Cooking

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• The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.

  Mark Kurlansky

  New York, Food, Beer

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• The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Food, Apples, Pie

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.238

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