Best food & fine Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“Any part of the piggy Is quite all right with me Ham from Westphalia, ham from Parma Ham as lean as the Dalai Lama Ham from Virginia, ham from York, Trotters Sausages, hot roast pork. Crackling crisp for my teeth to grind on Bacon with or without the rind on Though humanitarian I'm not a vegetarian. I'm neither crank nor prude nor prig And though it may sound infra dig Any part of the darling pig Is perfectly fine with me.”

May Sound Food Fine Hot Cooking Humanitarian Teeth Culinary Vegetarian Pigs Darling Grind Virginia Pork Ham Sausage Crisps Lama Crank Dalai Piggy Prudes

Author:Noel Coward

“It's food too fine for angels, yet come, take and eat thy fill!”

Food Fine Angel Cooking Culinary

Author:Edward Taylor

“It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.”

Food Fine Cooking Authenticity Dry Guts Culinary Smooth Rubbish Coarse

Author:Kingsley Amis

“Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry.”

Writing Moments Hands Pleasure Talking Food Fine Mouths Cooking Culinary Throat Delicious Strawberries Nectarines

Book:The Complete Works of John Keats

Source: The Complete Works of John Keats

“Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish. Rather than being reprimanded, they were often hauled into the dining room and flogged in the presence of the guests.”

Ifs Made Rooms Mistake Food Taught Fine Slave Prepared Ill Guests Dishes Chef Made A Mistake Dining Dining Rooms

Author:Jeff Smith

“And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.”

Thinking Made Hands Lasts Food Fine Pure Gold Cooking China Coffee Secure Cups Burning Culinary Spoiled Arabia Berries Cinnamon Saffron Mocha Fine China

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“Take care to chop the onion fine.”

Care Food Fine Cooking Take Care Culinary Onions

Book:Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies

Source: Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies

“I live on good soup, not on fine words.”

Literature Food Fine Soup Fine Words

Author:Moliere

“It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.”

Thinking Needs Writing Reality Seems Happens Three Security Food Fine And Love Cooking Hunger Satisfied Culinary Warmth Richness Basic Needs Entwined Hunger For Food

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.”

Heart Food Fine Beast Thick Organs Soup Relish Kidneys Palate Ulysses Fowl Nutty Mutton Offal

Author:James Joyce

“As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.”

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”

Knows Giving Littles Book Doors Food Fine Give Me Wine Fruit Weather Great Wine Fine Wine Funny Wine French Wine Fine Weather

Author:John Keats

“The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable price, but no one mentioned that the result usually tasted like the stuffing inside of a teddy bear.”

Made Grows Results Records Food Fine Industry Bears Sells Made It Reasonable Culinary Teddy Teddy Bear Poultry

Book:My Life in France

Source: My Life in France

“The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare.”

Ifs Food Fine Sarcastic Pork Yugoslavia

Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe, and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and balms and spices... It means the economy of your great-grandmother and the science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It means, in fine, that you are to see imperatively that everyone has something nice to eat.”

Mean Doe Art Knowledge Economy Nice Modern Food Fine Cooking Fruit Grandmother Culinary Chemistry Hospitality Spices Herbs Cookery Arabian Great Grandmother Calypso Medea

Author:John Ruskin

“To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.”

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Comfort Edition

“Some sensible person once remarked that you spend the whole of your life either in your bed or in your shoes. Having done the best you can by shoes and bed, devote all the time and resources at your disposal to the building up of a fine kitchen. It will be, as it should be, the most comforting and comfortable room in the house.”

Should Persons Done Whole Culture House Rooms Food Building Fine Bed Comfortable Resources Shoes Kitchen Sensible Comforting Building Up

Book:French Country Cooking

Source: French Country Cooking

“On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.”

Knows Food Fine Hot Depth Comforting Aunt Stairs Virginia Jars Trout Sparkling Cellars Pickles Hot Days

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been spent asleep; if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand; if he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought: if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint of amber-flavored chocolate... and marvels will be performed.”

Source: The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy

“At the time I write, the glory of the truffle has now reached its culmination. Who would dare to say that he has been at a dinner where there was not a pièce truffée? Who has not felt his mouth water in hearing truffles a la provencale spoken of? In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.”

Writing Has Beens Felt Water Food Fine Glory Mouths Dare Hearing Dinner Diamond Culmination Truffles

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.”

Art Numbers Five Food Painting Fine Architecture Branches Latter Principal Sculpture Fine Arts Pastries

Author:Marie-Antoine Careme

“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.”

Thinking Real Used Dying Food Products Fine Amount Cooking Enormous Culinary Competing Mexican Fast Food Supermarkets Cuisine

Author:Alma Guillermoprieto

“You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money... It's understanding that our daily choices about food connect us to a worldwide economic system. And that economic system - not scarcity - creates worldwide hunger for millions of people.”

People Way Choices Understanding Wealth Poverty Millions Economic Food Fine Eating Cooking Hunger One Way Lots Of Money Scarcity Economic Systems Daily Choices

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

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