Best 110 quotes in «culinary quotes» category

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

Seafood on the grill can be intimidating if you don't know what you are doing. It's really quite easy

Shake the hand that feeds you.

Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?

That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted.

So you can settle the fuck down. My mother used to say, "Primero comemos, entonces lo demás." That means, "first we eat, then we do everything else.

The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.

The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.

The greatest dishes are very simple.

The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.

The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

The onion is the truffle of the poor.

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament.

The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.

'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.

Velveeta: you can eat it - or wax your car with it!

What you eat and drink is 50 percent of life.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

This has got to be the most expensive food ever laminated.

This stuff tastes awful; I could have made a fortune selling it in my health-food store.

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

Craving is a good thing.In matters of culinary art, craving creates wonders.

When you're eating something and your palate tells you what's missing, that's when you start combining.

Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

Crushes weren’t made of quick and dirty; they were made of romance and fantasies. What would she do if he called her bluff?

Food stall owners reach out with menus, calling out their dinner selections like midway prizes

Have you ever been faced with the clear certainty that the culinary arts have a great propensity to rendering themselves unsavory?

Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime. Old garlic, burnt garlic, garlic cut too long ago and garlic that has been tragically smashed through one of those abominations, the garlic press, are all disgusting. Please treat your garlic with respect. Sliver it for pasta, like you saw in Goodfellas; don't burn it. Smash it, with the flat of your knife blade if you like, but don't put it through a press. I don't know what that junk is that squeezes out the end of those things, but it ain't garlic. And try roasting garlic. It gets mellower and sweeter if you roast it whole, still on the clove, to be squeezed out later when it's soft and brown. Nothing will permeate your food more irrevocably and irreparably than burnt or rancid garlic. Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screw-top jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.

Give me the benefit of your assistance during those ablutions that neccessarily, though unfortunatly, invariably follow the excercise of the culinary art.

My mother died when I was 18. Up until then, I never saw a tin can in my house. (Washington Post interview, 1990)

Hunger gives flavour to the food.

I haven't waited to be summoned for my big moment by a tap on the shoulder from a mysterious, benevolent stranger. It doesn't work that way where I'm from. You make your own opportunities where I'm from.

I'm not a purist. Coffee drinking minus cream and sugar is an acquired taste. I'm still not sure it isn't like telling chefs to dispense with spices in cooking.

In my mother's book, a vegetarian is somebody who is not concern with his or her diet and health. "Someone who prefer bush and grass, as if they is sheeps and cows, is somebody who don't have enough food to put in his mouth," she always say. Only vegetarians eat dryfood regularly—and like to eat it, too. It is not considered normal for a person to cook food that doesn't have some amount o' meat or fish to go with it. Only someone who is starving, who don't have money to buy a fish head or a single flying fish or even the head of a dolphin—in other words, a person who is "catching his arse"—has to eat dryfood. A person at this stage is a person one remove from having to cook bakes for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.

Unease stole through her, and she shivered. Now that the moment had arrived, she was nervous. Damn it, this never happens in my fantasies.

Without love, life is nothing but work and sleep.

Nothing mitigates the throes of depression like a steaming plate of spaghetti and meatballs with marinara sauce and grated parmasan cheese, with a good fresh bread to wipe up.