Best food & cuisine Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

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Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Speaking of food, English cuisine has received a lot of unfair criticism over the years, but the truth is that it can be a very pleasant surprise to the connoisseur of severely overcooked livestock organs served in lukewarm puddles of congealed grease. England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.”

“Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.”

Giving Food Advantage Cooking Culinary Elegant Gracious Cuisine Offence Metamorphosis Kidneys Calves Chameleon Condescension

Author:Emmanuel des Essarts

“All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.”

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.”

Life Religion Food Rose Smell Libertarian Vegetables Cynical Idealism Soup Noticing Idealist Cuisine Cynic Cabbage Soup Kitchens

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”

“A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.”

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”

“Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”

“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.”

“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”

“I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.”

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”

“The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.”

“I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure”

Source: Kitchen Confidential

“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”

Real Attitude Hell Food Cooking Block Kitchen Culinary Chef Fear Of Failure Stumbling Cuisine Great Food Stumbling Blocks Home Cooking Chefs Cooking Funny Kitchen

Author:Julia Child

“Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.”

Way Food Taste Cooking Culinary Cuisine

Author:Charlie Trotter

“We may live without friends; we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks.”

Men May Book Food Eating Cooks Civilized Cuisine Pining Home Cooking Without Friends

Author:Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

“A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.”

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Author:Elsa Schiaparelli

“Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.”

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Author:Marcel Boulestin

“I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.”

“A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.”

Together Food Musician Bases Exciting Jazz Chef Jazz Music Cuisine Jazz Musician

Author:Charlie Trotter

“Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour.”

Courses Hours Party Five Food Breathe Cups Tea Clock Weary Soup Consolation Steam Cocktails Cuisine Cups Of Tea Reassurance Sociability

Book:The Soup Book: 770 Recipes

Source: The Soup Book: 770 Recipes

“Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to think that the notoriously bad cooking of the English was an example to the contrary, and that the English cook the way they do because, through sheer technical deficiency, they had not been able to master the art of cooking. I have discovered to my stupefaction that the English cook that way because that is the way they like it.”

Thinking Way Want Art Country Enough Seems Able Used Example Food Masters Deserve Cooking Contrary Cooks Culinary Sheer Deficiency Cuisine Appreciative

Author:Waverley Root

“Cuisine is when things taste like themselves.”

Food Taste Cooking Culinary Cuisine

Author:Curnonsky

“Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.”

Nature Pleasure United Responsibility Food Harmony Cooking Sustainability Cuisine Slow Food

Author:Carlo Petrini

“The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.”

Mean Enough Too Much Food Bills Cooking Culinary Plates Cuisine

Author:Paul Bocuse

“I think the great Mexican cuisine is dying because there are fast foods now competing, because there are supermarkets, and supermarkets can't afford to keep in stock a lot of these very perishable products that are used for fine Mexican cooking. Women are working and real Mexican cooking requires enormous amounts of time.”

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Author:Alma Guillermoprieto

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