Culinary Quotes - Page 36

• Thy breath is like the steame of apple-pyes.

  Robert Greene

  Food, Apples, Cooking

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• The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Food, Heart, White

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Fern Bisel Peat (2012). “A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.34, Courier Dover Publications

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• I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities.

  Euripides

  God, Food, Sacrifice

  "Cyclops". Play by Euripides, circa 424-423 BCE.

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• From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.

  E. B. White

  Morning, Food, Heart

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• In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous.

  Jane Grigson

  Appreciation, Clever, Littles

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• Recipes don't work unless you use your heart!

  Dylan Jones

  Heart, Cooking, Use

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• When you're eating something and your palate tells you what's missing, that's when you start combining.

  Justin Quek

  Missing, Eating, Palate

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

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• Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Taste, Preference

  "A Handbook of Gastronomy".

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• You cannot get an influence from the cuisine of a country if you don't understand it. You've got to study it.

  Ferran Adria

  Country, Cuisine, Study

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• It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.

  Russell Baker

  Food, Grandmother, Funny Thanksgiving

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• Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.

  Nicole Hollander

  Food, Funny Thanksgiving, Turkeys

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• I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.

  Cyra McFadden

  Food, Cooking, Ingredients

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• This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke.

  Jane Grigson

  Food, Garden, Vegetables

  Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Fruit Book”, p.27, U of Nebraska Press

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• Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

  Socrates

  Food, Beer, Men

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Coffee: we can get it anywhere, and get as loaded as we like on it, until such teeth-chattering, eye-bulging, nonsense-gibbering time as we may be classified unable to operate heavy machinery.

  Joan Frank

  Coffee, Eye, Teeth

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• Appetite, a universal wolf.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Appetite

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.231

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• When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Inspiration, Angel

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• Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

  Lord Byron

  Laughter, Drinking, Food

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 178

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• Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

  Paul Theroux

  Creative, Cooking, Kitchen

  Paul Theroux (2014). “Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Food, Cooking, Cooks

  Reginald (1904) "Reginald on Besetting Sins"

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• Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

  Epictetus

  Food, Cooking, Silent

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• I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Thinking, Hands

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.402, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Food, People, Cooking

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Moon by Night”, p.18, Macmillan

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• The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.

  Tom Robbins

  Running, Food, Passion

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.1, Bantam

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• I know my limit. I just keep passing out before I reach it.

  Red Skelton

  Food, Cooking, Limits

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