Culinary Quotes - Page 40

• I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already given us tasteless bread.

  Robert Orben

  Food, Thinking, Vegetables

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• Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime.

  Andre Simon

  Food, Vegetables, Ifs And

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• When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

  Laurie Colwin

  Food, Eggplant, Vegetables

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• Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Food, Cooking

  In William Roberts (ed.) 'Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs Hannah More' (1834) vol. 1, p. 251

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• The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language
  barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.

  Samuel Chamberlain

  Art, Food, People

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• And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Taming, Culture

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.410

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• It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Food, People, House

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1968). “American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power”, p.97, Transaction Publishers

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• In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, America, Cooking

  1976 The Art of Eating.

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• Not having a New York culinary tradition, far from being limiting, it's an opportunity to create freely.

  Wylie Dufresne

  New York, Opportunity, Tradition

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• In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious.

  Bob Blumer

  Art, Passion, Wine

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• A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

  Laurie Colwin

  Summer, Food, July

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• Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes
  What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes
  Only two things that money can't buy
  That's true love and home grown tomatoes.

  John Denver

  Summer, Food, Home

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• Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends, belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them. They end on Monkey Hill.

  Cyril Connolly

  Food, Cooking, Abuse

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• Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Food, Two, Smell

  Evelyn Waugh (1930). “Labels: A Mediterranean Journal”

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• Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.

  John Dryden

  Food, Waiting, Cooking

  John Dryden (1717). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: Don Sebastian, king of Portugal. Amphitryon: or, The two Sosia's. Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. King Arthur. Love triumphant”

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• I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art.

  Isadora Duncan

  Art, Food, America

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• Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

  John Cage

  Food, Cooking, Delay

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.164, Wesleyan University Press

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• The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Food, Men, Cooking

  Rudyard Kipling (2006). “From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel”, p.454, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe,
  and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and
  balms and spices... It means the economy of your great-grandmother and the
  science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It
  means, in fine, that you are to see imperatively that everyone has something
  nice to eat.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Nice, Food

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