Home / Topics / Food Quotes

Food Quotes

Browse 4483 quotes about Food.

Food Quotes

“Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.”

Men Past Dies Food Fame Tables Cooking Culinary Farmers Ironic Guests Plates Shifting Corn Crow Fickle Crumbs

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.”

Littles Stills Left Food Cold Hot Dinner Impression Guests Soup Tricky Hostesses Dinner Guests Hot Soup

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“...I prefer not to have among my guests two people or more, of any sex, who are in the first wild tremours of love. It is better to invite them after their new passion has settled, has solidified into a quieter reciprocity of emotions. (It is also a waste of good food, to serve it to new lovers.)”

People Firsts Two Romance Passion Sex Emotion Food Lovers Waste Invites Guests Reciprocity Good Food

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“One whiff of a savory aromatic soup and appetites come to attention. The steaming fragrance of a tempting soup is a prelude to the goodness to come. An inspired soup puts family and guests in a receptive mood for enjoying the rest of the menu.”

Enjoy Attention Food Goodness Inspired Mood Appetite Guests Soup Fragrance Tempting Receptive Menus Prelude Savory

Book:The Soup Book: 770 Recipes

Source: The Soup Book: 770 Recipes

“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

“Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.”

Hours Half Too Much Food Huge Green Wine Vegetables Guests Dishes Salad

Author:Jeff Smith

“It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.”

Ifs World Food Honor Clothes Fairs Dresses Celebrate Manners Host Guests Dine

Author:Alison Croggon

“To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.”

Food Cooking Wine Very Good Culinary Guests Fatigue Best Wine Good Wine Funny Wine

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are impoverished and stretches its resources to give a hearty sustenance and cheer? Who warms you in the winter and cools you in the summer? Yet who also is capable of doing honor to your richest table and impressing your most demanding guests? Soup does its loyal best, no matter what undignified conditions are imposed upon it. You don't catch steak hanging around when you're poor and sick, do you?”

“HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.”

Needs Persons Certain Virtue Food Cooking Guests Hospitality Lodges House Guests

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary