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“Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted.”

Taken Food Cooking Granted Culinary Old Friends Taken For Granted Condiments

Author:Marilyn Kaytor

“I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.”

People I Can Food Eating Cooking Culinary Chef Italian Food Italian Cooking

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.”

Giving Fighting Food Devil Cooking Meals Iron Culinary Steel Beef

Author:William Shakespeare

“To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.”

People Facts Food Cooking Culinary Chickens Dishes Cowboy Unbelievers Texan Rattlesnakes

Book:The Americans: Fifty Letters from America on Our Life and Times

Source: The Americans: Fifty Letters from America on Our Life and Times

“The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.”

Food Horse Cooking Wine Culinary Foul Champagne

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.”

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Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.”

Ifs Country Pay Known Food Cooking Wine Debt Culinary Vines National Debt Drinking Wine Great Wine Vino Wine Making

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“If you're given champagne at lunch, there's a catch somewhere.”

Ifs Given Food Cooking Wine Culinary Lunch Champagne

Author:Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons

“Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners.”

Wells Soul Body United Food Cooking Wine Partners Ghost Culinary Corpses Matched Wine And Cheese

Author:Andre Simon

“Cooks are in some ways very much like actors; they must be fit and strong, since acting and cooking are two of the most exacting professions. They must be blessed - or cursed, whichever way you care to look at it - with what is called the artistic temperament, which means that if they are to act or cook at all well, it cannot be for duds or dummies.”

Ifs Way Wells Looks Mean Two Care Actors Strong Acting Food Fit Blessed Cooking Profession Artistic Cooks Culinary Temperament Cursed Being Blessed Dummy Artistic Temperament

Author:Andre Simon

“I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.”

Lost Food Regret Cooking Paradise Eggs Culinary Never Regret

Book:Busman's Honeymoon

Source: Busman's Honeymoon

“If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.”

Ifs I Can Women Food Cooking Memorable Culinary Truffles

Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.”

Family Food Cooking Dinner Nervous Memorable Culinary Resentment Ennui Ordeals Indigestion Family Dinner Jitters

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.”

Ifs Needs Running Food Cooking Karma Culinary Swim Vegetarian Vegan Vegetarianism Vegetarian Health Fly Away Vegan Diet Eating Animals Vegetarian Diet

Author:James Cromwell

“I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you.”

Ifs Thinking Want Should Food Cooking Karma Meat Hypocrisy Culinary Vegetarian Vegan Vegetarianism Blinded

Author:Margi Clarke

“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.”

Men Life Giving Funny Teach Food Cooking Lifetime Fishes Culinary Artificial Shortage Steak Teach A Man To Fish

Author:Jay Leno

“Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.”

Source: Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel

“A Bearnaise sauce is simply an egg yolk, a shallot, a little tarragon vinegar, and butter, but it takes years of practice for the result to be perfect.”

Years Littles Perfect Results Practice Food Perfection Cooking Eggs Culinary Sauce Vinegar

Author:Fernand Point

“Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards.”

Children Littles Eye Water Laughing Food Cold Drink Cooking Favors Stealing Wicked Culinary Vegetarian Stamps Beard Calculating Drink Water

Author:J. B. Morton

“A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.”

May Food Remains Cooking Immortality Dull Culinary Leap Milk Cheese Naive Disappoint Cheesy

Author:Clifton Fadiman

“As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.”

Ifs Writing Food Cooking Culinary Cookbook

Author:Alice B. Toklas

“I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.”

Thinking Wells Order Food Cooking Eggs Culinary Breakfast

Author:Claudette Colbert

“Revenge is a dish best served cold.”

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Author:Ricardo Montalban

“A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes.”

Real Eye Food Tears Sweet Cooking Grandmother Culinary Bites Georgia Backyards Sweaters Peaches Orchard Fluent Great Grandmother Flannels

Book:Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction

Source: Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction

“When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.”

Men Inspirational Looks Young Food Tables Cooking Dinner Young Man Culinary Old Man Waitress

Book:Look Eleven Years Younger

Source: Look Eleven Years Younger

“My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.”

Made White Wonderful Food Cooking Dues Culinary Healthcare Soup Good Health Dove

Author:Chiang Kai-shek

“I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.”

Feels Sometimes Food Cooking Culinary Dishes Banner

Author:Kingsley Amis

“It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.”

Knows Men Food Cooking Culinary Salt

Book:The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...

Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...

“When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.”

Moving Grace Food Duty Cooking Dancing Fingers Kitchen Dancer Culinary Ballet Precision Mixing Ballet Dancer Carving Chopping Dexterity

Author:Craig Claiborne

“The onion is the truffle of the poor.”

Poor Food Cooking Culinary Onions Truffles

Author:Robert J Courtine

“Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.”

Should Mind Passion Food Bears Cooking Culinary

Author:Epictetus

“How do they taste? They taste like more.”

Food Taste Cooking Culinary

Author:H. L. Mencken

“After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.”

“I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities.”

God Sacrifice Food Cooking Culinary Belly Deities

Author:Euripides

“From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.”

Needs Humans Heart Littles Important Night Sound Brain Morning Food Hot Cooking Familiar Kitchen Culinary Warmth Wet Human Heart Comforting Sock

Author:E. B. White

“Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini.”

Food Clothes Cooking Beer Dry Culinary Wet Martini

Author:Mae West

“Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.”

Men May Evil Food Drink Eating Cooking Beer Culinary Good Man Stomach Bad Man Eating And Drinking Good Eats

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke.”

Source: Jane Grigson's Fruit Book

“Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable it has original sin, and needs improvement. It can smell foul in the pot, linger through the house with pertinacity, and ruin a meal with its wet flab. Cabbage also has a nasty history of being good for you.”

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Book:Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book

Source: Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book

“A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters.”

Persons Important Lasts Culture Water Minutes Food Tables Cooking Culinary Royalty Last Minute Important Person

Author:Willard Spiegelman

“Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a text. The just-wed cook brings to the new household no carefully copied collection of the family's cherished recipes, but a spanking new edition of 'Fannie Farmer' or 'The Joy of Cooking'.”

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Author:John Thorne

“More people will die from hit-or-miss eating than from hit-and-run driving.”

People Running Dies Missing Food Eating Cooking Driving Culinary

Author:Duncan Hines

“I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.”

Food Drink Cooking Culinary Ingredients

Author:Cyra McFadden

“Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.”

Food Cooking Culinary Turkeys Wraps Funny Thanksgiving Foils Thanksgiving Funny Leftovers Aluminum Funny Thanksgiving Day Thanksgiving Turkey Turkeys On Thanksgiving Aluminum Foil

Author:Nicole Hollander

“It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.”

“Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.”

Objects Food Taste Rational Culinary Preference Habitual Impassioned

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”

Writing Wells Food Cooking Primaries Culinary Appetite Apprenticeship Writing Well

Book:Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer

Source: Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer

“Give a man food, and he can eat for a day. Give a man a job, and he can only eat for 30 minutes on break.”

Men Giving Wisdom Jobs Break Wise Minutes Food Culinary

Author:Lev L. Spiro

“We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.”

Life Is Views Meditation Food Cooking Kitchen Culinary Sane Sage

Book:Last Essays

Source: Last Essays

“I don't like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo priestess, I would conduct my rituals there.”

Ifs Religious Food Cooking Kitchen Culinary Ritual Voodoo Priestesses

Book:Pearl's Kitchen: An Extraordinary Cookbook

Source: Pearl's Kitchen: An Extraordinary Cookbook