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Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.

A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

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.

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to make one feel that it has never before been encountered in the kitchen.

Approaching the stove, she would don a voluminous apron, toss some meat on a platter, empty a skillet of its perfectly cooked a point vegetables, sprinkle a handful of chopped parsley over all, and then, like a proficient striptease artist, remove the apron, allowing it to fall to the floor with a shake of her hips.

Appetite, a universal wolf.

A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.

A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.

A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.

As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.

As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.

A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.

A soup so thick you could shake its hand and stroll with it before dinner.

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.

As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window. I asked the colonel what type of aircraft it was, and he said, "Don't worry about it, Bob. . . if you can see it, it's obsolete.

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.

As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating.

At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.

At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything.

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

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.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer; bakers of large loaves will not buy grain before two o'clock. This will enable the people of the town to obtain their supply first. Bakers shall put a distinctive trademark on their loaves, and keep weights and scales in their shops, under penalty of having their licenses removed.

Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.

Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime.

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

Be careful not to be the first to put your hands in the dish. What you cannot hold in your hands you must put on your plate. Also it is a great breach of etiquette when your fingers are dirty and greasy, to bring them to your mouth in order to lick them, or to clean them on your jacket. It would be more decent to use the tablecloth.

Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and revealed to him the art of making le vin. By the aid of this liquid he unveiled more and more truth.

Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.