Sauce Quotes

• Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.

  Alexis Soyer

  Food, Cooking, Foundation

  Alexis Soyer (1851). “The Modern Housewife: Or, Ménagère. Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts, for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, and Those for the Nursery and Sick Room; and Minute Directions for Family Management in All Its Branches. Illustrated with Engravings Including the Modern Housewife's Unique Kitchen, and Magic Stove”, p.88

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• An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Sin, Kitchen Confidential, Multitudes

  Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.133, A&C Black

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• It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.

  Alistair Cooke

  Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Doctrine

  Alistair Cooke (2015). “Talk About America: 1951–1968”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.

  Fernand Point

  Food, Cooking, Kitchen

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• A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

  Anton Chekhov

  Mean, Doe, Literature

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  If a man does not have the sauce, then he is lost. But the same man can be lost in the sauce.

  Gucci Mane

  Men, Doe, Lost

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• Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

  Orson Scott Card

  Rumor, Dry

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• If you want to sell a steak, you can't just have the sizzle, you gotta have sauce.

  Don King

  Want, Enthusiasm, Sizzling

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• Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Food, Cooking, Woe

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• If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe.

  Paul Bocuse

  Mistake, Doctors, Ivy

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• Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.

  William Lethaby

  Art, Cooking, Special

  William Richard Lethaby (1982). “Lethaby, a Continuing Presence: Seven Essays Taken from Form in Civilization”

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• I originate from a family where sauce is viewed as a refreshment.

  Erma Bombeck

  Thanksgiving, Refreshments

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• Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Women, Made, Know How

  Octave Mirbeau (1911). “The Experiences of a Ladies' Maid”

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• What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

  Marcus Terentius Varro

  Gander, Geese

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

  Plutarch

  Fitness, Sweet, Relaxation

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• You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Wonder, Coming Back, Barbecue

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

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• The steak ain't right without the A-1
  So I stay dipped in sauce and they come

  Mac Dre

  Hip Hop, Steak

  Song: She Neva Seen, 2004

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• There's no sauce in the world like hunger.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1719). “THE HISTORY OF THE RENOWNED DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA”, p.51

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• When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Birthday, Mother, Kids

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• It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Silence, Covering, Speak

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• If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It's pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Kids, Simple, Pasta

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• You can pour melted ice cream on regular ice cream. It's like a sauce!

  Chris Pratt

  Ice Cream, Ice, Cream

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

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• My repertoire is small, but I can make a pretty tasty pasta sauce from scratch.

  Cynthia Addai-Robinson

  Scratches, Pasta, Tasty

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I'll go to the gym and put on old albums - Guns N' Roses or old Jay-Z.

  Fergie

  Inspiration, Gun, Ducks

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• You're looking at that chick like you want to roll her up in a taco and put your hot sauce all over her.

  J.R. Ward

  Want, Tacos, Hot

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.2020, Penguin

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