Culinary Quotes - Page 39

• A cook is creative, marrying ingredients in the way a poet marries words.

  Roger Verge

  Food, Creative, Cooking

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• A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.

  Roger Verge

  Food, Cooking, Recipes

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• Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs.

  Fred Allen

  Food, Paris, Cooking

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• Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Cooking, Widows

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• We ought to know about our culinary past. Food and identity is terribly important ... I don't mean we should go out and eat historic dishes, but we should know what makes us different ... self-confident nations have that sense of where they come from.

  Tom Jaine

  Mean, Past, Self

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• The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Quality

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.983, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.

  Emily Dickinson

  Food, Past, Men

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1939, Delphi Classics

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• Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Appetite

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.6021, BookCaps Study Guides

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• FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Science, Cooking

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.72, 谷月社

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• Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Sarcastic, Real, Book

  Andrei Codrescu (1989). “Raised by puppets, only to be killed by research”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Time, Food, Men

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• It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Food, Hockey, Ice Cream

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

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• If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

  George Eliot

  Food, Thinking, Cooking

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.292

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• Someone is putting brandy in your bonbons, Grand Marnier in your breakfast jam, Kahlua in your ice cream, Scotch in your mustard and Wild Turkey in your cake.

  Marian Burros

  Food, Scotch, Ice Cream

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• Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un.

  Marian Burros

  Drinking, Food, Cooking

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• Eating at a new, highly recommended restaurant is like a Very Important Blind Date, a contract with uncertainty you enter into with great expectation battling the cynicism of experience. You sit waiting, wondering about the upcoming moments of revelation. Somewhere in the back of your head is the dour warning that disappointment is inevitable but you don't really believe it or you wouldn't be there. The best eaters are always optimists.

  Stuart Stevens

  Disappointment, Believe, Food

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• Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Food, Men, Cooking

  'Fame is a Food' (1906)

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• Hunger is never delicate.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Cooking, Hunger

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.163

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• ...cassoulet, like life itself, is not so simple as it seems.

  Paula Wolfert

  Food, Simple, Cooking

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• ...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.

  Pliny the Elder

  Food, Sea, Cooking

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• The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Food, Cooking

  "Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne".

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• Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Food, Doctors, Marching On

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• The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Food, Shopping, Cooking

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.49, BookBaby

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• I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Food, Cooking, Meat

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.84, New Directions Publishing

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• It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Food, Cooking, Tables

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