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“The secret of good cooking is, first, having a
love of it… If you’re
convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good
at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.”
~ James Beard
“Cookery means…English thoroughness,
French art, and Arabian
hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms
and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.”
~ John Ruskin
"Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French.
Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy
sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good."
~ Alice May Brock
"Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches,
or
June and moon, or good people and noble ventures."
~ M. F. K. Fisher
"Don't let love interfere with your
appetite.
It never does with mine."
~ Anthony
Trollope
“It was in France that I first
learned about food. And that even the
selection of a perfect pear, a ripe
piece of Brie, the freshest butter,
the highest quality cream were as
important as how the dish you
were going to be served was actually cooked.”
~ Robert Carrier
“Watch a French housewife as she
makes her way slowly along the
loaded stalls… searching for the peak of
ripeness and flavor…
What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently
assembling
all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil
colors
onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.”
~ Keith Floyd
“The onion is the truffle of the
poor.”
~ Robert J. Courtine
“In cooking, as in the arts,
simplicity is a sign of perfection.”
~ Curnonsky
“No man is lonely while eating
spaghetti:
it requires so much attention.”
~ Christopher Morley
“What you eat and drink is 50
percent of life.”
~
Gérard Depardieu
“Bread is the warmest, kindest of
words. Write it always with
a capital letter,
like your own name.”
~ Russian café sign
“He lay back for a little in his bed
thinking about the smells of food…
of the intoxicating breath of bakeries
and dullness of buns… He planned
dinners, of enchanting aromatic foods…
endless dinners, in which one
could alternate flavor with flavor from sunset
to dawn without satiety,
while one breathed great draughts of the bouquet of
brandy.”
~ Evelyn Waugh
"Gleaming skin; a plump elongated
shape: the eggplant is a
vegetable
you'd want to caress with your eyes and
fingers,
even if you didn't
know its luscious flavor."
~ Roger Vergé
“If God had not made brown honey,
men would think
figs much sweeter than
they do.”
~ Xenophanes
“Food can look beautiful, taste
exquisite, smell wonderful, make
people
feel good, bring them together,
inspire romantic feelings…
At its most
basic, it is fuel for a hungry
machine.”
~ Rosamond Richardson
“If man be sensible and one fine
morning, while he is lying in bed,
counts at the tips of his fingers how
many things in this life truly will
give him enjoyment, invariably he will
find food is the first one.”
~ Lin Yutang
“Happy and successful cooking
doesn’t rely only on know-how;
it comes from the heart, makes great demands
on the palate, and
needs enthusiasm and a great love of food to bring it to
life.”
~ Georges Blanc
“I hate people who are not serious
about their meals.”
~ Oscar Wilde
 
"A mighty
porterhouse steak an inch
and a half thick, hot and sputtering
from the griddle; dusted with fragrant
pepper; enriched with little melting
bits of butter of the most
unimpeachable freshness and genuineness; the
precious juices of the meat
trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed
with mushrooms; a
township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-
lying district of
this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which
divides the
sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place."
~ from the writings of Mark Twain,
while touring Europe in 1878
"A recipe is only a theme, which an
intelligent cook can play
each time with
a variation."
~ Madame Benoit
"Aioli intoxicates gently, fills the
body with warmth, and the soul with
enthusiasm. In its essence it
concentrates the strength, the gaiety of
Provence: sunshine."
~ Frederic Mistral
"Anyone who eats three meals a day
should understand why
cookbooks outsell sex books three to one."
~ L. M. Boyd
"Don't be a fuddy-duddy with your
hollandaise;
be bold,
dunk your pretzels in it!"
~ Miss Piggy
"If the soup had been as warm as the wine;
if the wine
had been as old as the turkey;
and if the turkey had had a breast like the
maid,
it would have been a
swell dinner."
~ Duncan Hines
"No mean woman can cook well. It
calls for a generous spirit,
a light hand, and a large heart."
~ Paul Gauguin
"Don't wreck a sublime
chocolate
experience by feeling guilty.
Chocolate isn't like premarital sex. It will
not make you pregnant.
And it always feels good."
~ Lora Brody
"I'm a man. Men cook outside. That
outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit
has long been beyond question. If this
wasn't understood, you'd never
get grown men to put on those aprons with
pictures of dancing weenies
on the front, and messages like 'Come 'n' Get
It!' "
~ William Geist
"Americans are just beginning to regard food the way
the French
always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before
something else. Dinner is the evening."
~ Art Buchwald
“Eat your
curry, and be brilliant!
Why should I make the effort to try something new when I already
like the
food I eat? Part of the answer lies in the Indian belief that
eating more
complex and subtly flavored foods exercises the brain,
making it better at
understanding and appreciating and surviving
the subtle complexities of
life.”
~ The Spice House Catalog, on curry powders
"We should look for someone to eat and drink with
before looking
for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading
the life
of a lion or wolf."
~ Epicurus
“There is no sight on Earth more
appealing than the sight
of a woman making
dinner for someone she loves.”
~ Thomas Wolfe
"Dining is and always was a great artistic
opportunity."
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
"It takes some skill to spoil a
breakfast -
even the
English can't do it."
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
“I pray that death may strike me in
the middle of a large meal.
I wish to be buried under the tablecloth between
four large dishes.”
~ Marc Desuagiers
"I've long said that if I were about
to be executed and were given
a choice of my
last meal, it would be bacon
and eggs."
~ James Beard
"We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A
camel-load
of idol's eyes?
The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of
Asia?
A trip to the moon? No, no,
no, no. Simply to wake just in time to
smell coffee and bacon and eggs."
~
J. B. Priestly
“I doubt the world holds for anyone a more
soul-stirring
surprise than the first adventure with
ice cream.”
~ Heywood Broun
“The art of cooking is among the most intimate
things
that we can do for another.”
~
Chef Charlie Trotter
"What a flavor oysters have--mellow, coppery, with
almost a
creaminess when you chew and analyze. I drank some good beer
with
them and floated on a gastronomically sensual cloud."
~ James Beard
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“Food is, delightfully, an area of
licensed sensuality,
of physical delight which will, with luck and enduring
taste buds, last our life long.”
~ Antonia Till
"Seize the moment. Remember all those women
on the
'Titanic' who waved off the
dessert cart."
~ Erma Bombeck
"In the end, your creativity - perhaps even your
outrageousness - will determine
the final result."
~ Bobby Flay
“I used to love the way everyone talked about food as
if it were
one of the most important things in life. And, of course, it is.
Without it we would die. Each of us
eats about one thousand
meals a year. It
is my belief that we should try and make
as
many of these meals as we can
truly memorable.”
~ Robert Carrier
"There is no technique, there is just the way to do it.
Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?"
~
Frances Mayes, in
'Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
 '
"When love and skill work together, expect a
masterpiece."
~ John Ruskin
"There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who
can cook
and won't,
and that's a wife who can't cook and will."
~ Robert Frost
"You are eating the sea, that's it, only the sensation
of a gulp of sea water
has been wafted out of it by some sorcery, and you
are on the verge of
remembering you don't know what, mermaids or the sudden
smell of
kelp on the ebb tide or a poem you read once, something connected
with the flavor of life itself..."
~ Eleanor Clark, in 'The Oysters of Locmariaquer
',
on tasting Brittany's Armoricaines oysters
"You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love
oysters and asparagus
and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either.
He's simply got the
instinct for being unhappy highly developed."
~ Saki
"The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palms, the
gold beads,
the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships. the
moonlight, the
winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers - all of it
seems to
rise in the sour, pungent taste of these black olives between the
teeth.
A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold
water."
~ Lawrence Durrell
"Everything you see I owe to
spaghetti."
~ Sophia Loren
"I come from a home where gravy is a beverage."
~ Erma Bombeck
"If I had a son who was ready to marry, I would tell
him,
'Beware of girls who don't like wine, truffles, cheese, or music.' "
~ Colette
“Let the progress of the meal be slow, for dinner
is the last
business of the day; and let the guests conduct themselves
like travelers due to reach their destination together.”
~ Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Food Quotes Page 1
Julia Child in her Own Words
Thanks to Tom Fitzmorris for his contributions to
these pages!
Interesting
insights on food and life...
Je t'aime
Jennifer Garant
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