Best 2531 quotes in «food quotes» category

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

Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.

Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.

Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no longer able to give a just value, which goes well beyond mere economic parameters. We should all remember, however, that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the the poor, the hungry!

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

Cooking demands attention, patience, and above all, a respect for the gifts of the earth. It is a form of worship, a way of giving thanks.

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness.

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

Cooking is so popular today because it's the perfect mix of food and fun.

Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.

Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.

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.

Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

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

Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.

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

Cookbooks hit you where you live. You want comfort; you want security; you want food; you want to not be hungry and not only do you want those basic things fixed, you want it done in a really nice, gentle way that makes you feel loved. That's a big desire, and cookbooks say to the person reading them, 'If you will read me, you will be able to do this for yourself and for others. You will make everybody feel better.'

Cooking is not about being the best or most perfect cook, but rather it is about sharing the table with family and friends.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those libels on civilized cookery, called DUMPLINGS! One might about as well eat, with the hope of digesting, a brick from the ruins of Babylon, as one of the hard, heavy masses of boiled dough which usually pass under this name.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

desserts are the most crucial part of any meal.

Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.

Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class-involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing-are not sustainable. A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.

Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.

Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power of words which somehow will develop its qualities.

Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?

Do not be afraid of simplicity. If you have a cold chicken for supper, why cover it with a tasteless white sauce which makes it look like a pretentious dish on the buffet table at some fance dress ball?

Do no talk while eating.

Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and drinking. The money we waste on these things can be used for so many useful things. With the money we smoke away, we can buy an artificial leg for one who has lost a leg, pay for an eye operation for someone with a cataract, or buy a wheelchair for a polio victim. Or, if nothing else, we can buy some spiritual books for the local library.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.

Do something. Anything. You're alive, and you'll only be for a few decades, and then it's done. You'll be in the ground, worm food. Make something and don't let fear consume you.

Don't touch my d**k, don't touch my knife.

Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did

Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host' It isn't done.