Quotes and Sayings About Culinary
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
-- A. J. Liebling -
The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.
-- Adelle Davis -
Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.
-- Andrew Marvell -
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
-- Anthony Trollope -
A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.
-- Anton Chekhov -
So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.
-- Auguste Escoffier -
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
-- Ben Bradlee -
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.
-- Bruce Jay Friedman -
Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible.
-- Catharine Beecher -
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.
-- Clifton Fadiman -
A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.
-- Curt Siodmak -
When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore.
-- Diane Mott Davidson -
People are cooking less but obsessing about it more.
-- Dougie Poynter -
It's food too fine for angels, yet come, take and eat thy fill!
-- Edward Taylor -
Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.
-- Eli Wallach -
I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days.
-- Elizabeth McCracken -
Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!
-- Elsa Maxwell -
No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.
-- Emily Post -
The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.
-- Emmanuel des Essarts -
It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.
-- Finley Peter Dunne -
He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head.
-- Ford Madox Ford -
Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?
-- Frank Bruni
