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“The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.”

World Courses Food Cooking Oneself Fishes Fishing

Source: Cross Creek Cookery

“Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories. I cannot conceive of cooking for friends or family, under reasonable conditions, as being a chore.”

Company Conditions Cooking Mere Prepared Reasonable Calories Chores Good Company

Book:Cross Creek Cookery

Source: Cross Creek Cookery

“Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.”

Food Cooking Culinary Widows Heirs Onions

Book:The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes

Source: The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes

“My mother was the worst cook ever. In school, when we traded lunches, I had to throw in an article of clothing.”

School Mother Worst Cooking Cooks Lunch Articles Clothings

Author:Rita Rudner

“Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.”

People Mind Wells Would Be Hell Food Eating Cooking Average Size Likes Japan Serving Bent Suitable Supplements Cuisine Fries Japanese Food French Fries Hostesses

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.”

Beautiful Language Felt Rooms Fiction Cooking English Language Cookbook Beautiful Words Room Service

Book:I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression

Source: I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression

“Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't.”

Thinking States United United States Judging Amount Cooking Cooks Printed American Woman Cookbook

Book:Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes

Source: Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes

“Hunger is never delicate.”

Food Cooking Hunger Culinary Appetite Delicate

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes

“Cooking is revolution and creation.”

Creation Revolution Cooking

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.”

Fashion Logic Cooking France

Author:Gertrude Stein

“What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick!”

Ifs Hard Facts Hot Cooking Add Thick Comforting Flour Crosswords Hard Days Culinary Love

Book:Heartburn

Source: Heartburn

“The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup.”

Should Mean Ends Self Use Morning Food Expression Personality Cooking Edges Cooks Meals Soup Pondering Self Expression Chins

Author:Rebecca West

“Salt represents the civilized: it requires know-how to get it, and a sophisticated combination of cooking and spoilt, jaded appetites to need it.”

Knows Needs Know How Cooking Combination Civilized Appetite Salt Sophisticated Jaded Spoilt

Book:Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea

Source: Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea

“Animals are murdered to produce meat; vegetables are torn up, peeled, and chopped; most of what we eat is treated with fire; and chewing is designed remorselessly to finish what killing and cooking began. People naturally prefer that none of this should happen to them. Behind every rule of table etiquette lurks the determination of each person present to be a diner, not a dish.”

Source: The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners

“I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.”

Mean Use Sound Eating Cooking Wine Meals Corn Flakes Gourmet Sherry Casseroles Corn Flakes

Author:Julia Child

“The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them.”

Knows Needs Stills Book Problem Reader Cooking Like Me Cooks Explanation Riddle Skip Cookery

Author:Julia Child

“the more experience you have, the more interesting cooking is because you know what can happen to the food. In the beginning you can look at a chicken and it doesn't mean much, but once you have done some cooking you can see in that chicken a parade of things you will be able to create.”

Knows Looks Mean Done Happens Able Interesting Cooking Chickens Parades

Author:Julia Child

“Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.”

May Art Creative Wonderful Cooking Hobbies Creative Art

Author:Julia Child

“Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.”

Remember Cooking Kitchen Remember You Remembers You All Alone

Author:Julia Child

“the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feather bed, or running like a cooling stream, they can also burst like fireworks from their shells and take on the look and rubbery texture of a baby octopus. Never a dull egg, with me.”

Looks Sometimes Hard Running Food Baby Bed Tests Cooking Fantastic Cooks Streams Dull Eggs Diamond Shells Fabulous Feathers Texture Fireworks Cooling Octopus Boiled Eggs

Author:Nancy Mitford

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

Seems Simple Food Cooking Culinary

Author:Paula Wolfert

“...if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.”

Ifs Sun Food Cold Cooking Dawn Culinary Flavor Chill Silk Beef Barbecue Sun Rise

Author:William Allen White

“...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.”

Way Whole Causes Moral Sea Food Cooking Fishes Lifestyle Variety Realms Culinary Prime Stomach Decline Dishes Adaptation Extravagant Tasty Shellfish

Author:Pliny the Elder

“The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker.”

Men Food He Man Poet Cooking Locals Bread Culinary Bakers Daily Bread Our Daily Bread Best Poet

Author:Pablo Neruda

“The key dietary messages are stunningly simple: Eat less, move more, eat more fruits and vegetables, and don't eat too much junk food. It's no more complicated than that.”

Moving Simple Too Much Food Keys Messages Cooking Fruit Complicated Culinary Vegetables Junk Junk Food Fruits And Vegetables

Author:Marion Nestle

“...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.”

Spirit Clear Food Cooking Culinary Englishmen Prunes Porridge

Author:E. M. Forster

“A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.”

World Mind Long Body Food Cooking Misery Details Culinary Distress Mind And Body Inventor Recreation Harassment Overlooked Weariness Banquets

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

“A carbonated wine foisted upon Americans (who else would drink it?) by winery ad agencies as a way of getting rid of inferior champagne by mixing it with inferior burgundy.”

Way Food Drink Cooking Wine Agency Culinary Ads Inferiors Champagne Mixing Burgundy

Author:John Ciardi

“A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.”

Pieces Food Cooking Patient Bones Restaurants Culinary Leather

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.”

Religious Food Couple Thousand Harmony Cooking Fifty Culinary Temper Sermons Promoters Methodists

Book:Cottage Economy

Source: Cottage Economy

“A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.”

Food Cooking Oil Culinary Salt Dressings Peppers Vinegar Mustard Custard Oil And Vinegar

Author:Ogden Nash

“A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some of our Edinburgh philosophers tried to produce their equal in vain. I was one of a party at dinner where the philosophical haddocks were placed in competition with the genuine Finnan fish. These were served round without distinguishing whence they came; but only one gentleman out of twelve present espoused the cause of philosophy.”

“A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.”

Men Food Depends Conscience Cooking Culinary Good Man Digestion Good Digestion

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem... biting into it!”

Problem Easy Pieces Food Ought Cooking Rings Bread Culinary Strings Cake Sandwiches Onions One Piece Peppers Biting Hippo Mayonnaise Hippopotamus Onion Rings

Author:Shel Silverstein

“A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.”

Men Meditation Food Cooking Dinner Culinary Trembling Doubtful Creditors Enquiry

Author:Samuel Johnson

“A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.”

Men Trying Wells Use Might Rich Food Fine Drink Cooking Coffee Bread Tea Culinary Cake Pie Tobacco Pork Chaste Flour Condiments

Book:Plain Facts for Old and Young

Source: Plain Facts for Old and Young

“A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.”

Men Want Food Cooking Culinary Farms

Author:Anton Chekhov

“A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.”

Men Food Cooking Careful Culinary Careless Paragraph Palate

Author:Clifton Fadiman

“A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.”

Men Food Capable Cooking Grandmother Culinary Seducing Stingy Saffron

Author:Norman Douglas

“A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.”

Made Rocks Food Cooking Lays Golden Culinary Fossils Pigeons Larks Quails Pasties

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“A soup so thick you could shake its hand and stroll with it before dinner.”

Hands Food Cooking Dinner Shakes Culinary Thick Soup

Book:John Burnside, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie

Source: John Burnside, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie

“A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.”

Water Food Cold Taste Cooking Wine Meat Culinary Olives Cold Water

Book:Prospero's cell: a guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corcyra

Source: Prospero's cell: a guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corcyra

“A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.”

White Food Cooking Passionate Tiny Culinary Scarlet Radishes

Author:Clementine Paddleford

“A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from the woods was free and amounted to a diurnal dining diary that everyone kept in their heads. May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and stinging nettles. July was cherries and wild strawberries. August was forest berries. September was porcini.”

“Abstain from beans. There be sundry interpretations of this symbol. But Plutarch and Cicero think beans to be forbidden of Pythagoras, because they be windy and do engender impure humours and for that cause provoke bodily lust.”

Thinking Causes Food Humour Cooking Lust Symbols Culinary Interpretation Provoking Forbidden Beans Windy

Author:Richard Taverner

“Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.”

May Littles Bits Food Little Bit Picks Cooking Alcohol Culinary

Author:Betty Ford

“All millionaires love a baked apple.”

Food Cooking Apples Culinary Millionaire

Author:Ronald Firbank

“All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.”

Waiting Minutes Food Cooking Culinary Plates Napkins Flapping

Author:Hugh Casson

“All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.”

Men Has Beens Food Murder Cooking Culinary Sober Villainy Abel Teetotalers

Author:H. L. Mencken

“All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.”

Seems Found Food Needed Cooking Culinary Dishes Vitamins

Author:William Feather

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