Best 110 quotes in «culinary quotes» category

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

Without love, life is nothing but work and sleep.

And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

You think in terms of educated palates, and you'd be right to assume most folks here wouldn't know a panna cotta from a semifreddo. But what I've discovered is that food is just another form of art. The people on Sugarberry might not know why they like it, but they know when they do. I'm discovering that I don't need to educate people, I just want to feed them and make them happy. And if in doing so, I get to play with new flavor profiles and complex combinations, even in something as rudimentary as a cupcake? That makes me happy. In fact, trying to maximize new flavors in a tiny cup of cake motivates me, challenges me. Seeing my customers lick their lips when they taste my creations is all the validation I'll ever need.

All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.

And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.

An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.

Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.

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

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

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

Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.

Culinary science? You elected culinary science? That's the most brainless class ever. -Rose to Christian

Ethnic, cultural, artistic and culinary diversity. LA...a feast for the senses.

Eat as much as you like-just don't swallow it.

Each city has its own culinary landscape.

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.

Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

Hunger is never delicate.

If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

I fell in love with food because of my mother. So, I will definitely be sharing and expanding more recipes from my culture (as well as many other cultures), and will be sharing recipes that I have experienced from my whole culinary life.

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

I never met a Cab I didn't like.

I like to cook. I would probably go to culinary school in France if I had time.

I have no formal culinary training, right.

It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.

In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

It is contrary to the will of God to eat delicate food hastily.

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

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.

It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

Mexican food is one of the best culinary experiences that people can have.

My culinary wardrobe is the same as my biking wardrobe, just no shoes.