1.
The workman mindful of success, therefore, will naturally direct his attention to the faultless preparation of his stock, and in order to achieve this result, he will find it necessary not merely to make use of the freshest and finest goods, but also to exercise the most scrupulous care in their preparation, for, in cooking, care is half the battle.
Auguste Escoffier
2.
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.
William Shakespeare
The strawberry flourishes beneath the stinging-nettle, And wholesome fruits swell and mature to perfection Surrounded by produce of inferior calibre.
3.
The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.
Paul Bocuse
The ostensible 'haute cuisine' often translates to scant portions and a hefty price tag.
4.
Without butter, without eggs, there is no reason to come to France.
Paul Bocuse
'Without margarine, without ova, there is no incentive to come to France.'
5.
When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.
Marie-Antoine Careme
When culinary skill fades from the world, literature shall wither, intelligence be dulled, sociability vanish, and amity dissolve.
6.
If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
Diogenes
8.
The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
Sophia Loren
9.
The whole idea is to earn the flavor. No one gives it to you.
Jamie Oliver
10.
A wonderful bird is a pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week;
But I'm damned if I see how the helican.
Dixon Lanier Merritt
11.
Islam doesn't try to destroy cultures; it cleans them up. You can keep your language but get rid of your racist speech. You can keep your style of cooking, but get rid of alcohol. You can keep your cultural dresses, but keep your modesty on the highest level.
Nouman Ali Khan
12.
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.
Alexander Fleming
13.
As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.
Hattie McDaniel
14.
I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
Ted Allen
15.
Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.
Jeff Smith
16.
Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.
Fats Domino
18.
But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: 'how well one may philosophize when preparing dinner.' And I often say, when observing these trivial details: had Aristotle prepared vituals [sic], he would have written more.
Juana Inés de la Cruz
19.
I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.
Lillian Gordy Carter
20.
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
Lewis Carroll
21.
Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!
John Smith
22.
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Ambrose Bierce
23.
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Napoleon Hill
24.
The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.
Fernand Point
25.
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
26.
Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.
Clementine Paddleford
27.
In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.
Fernand Point
28.
A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.
Warner LeRoy
29.
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
Raymond Chandler
30.
Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.
P. J. O'Rourke
32.
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
Wendell Berry
33.
Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
Yotam Ottolenghi
34.
Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
Robert Redford
35.
Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.
Carlo Petrini
36.
I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.
Martin Yan
37.
Indeed, stock is everything in cooking. Without it, nothing can be done.
Auguste Escoffier
39.
An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.
George du Maurier
40.
Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.
Craig Claiborne
41.
Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your time. Take a long time. Move slowly and deliberately and with great attention.
Thomas Keller
42.
You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!
M. F. K. Fisher
43.
On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.
George Mikes
44.
Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.
George Nelson
46.
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
Miguel de Cervantes
47.
I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.
Steven Wright
48.
She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.
Louis Kronenberger
49.
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
50.
I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.
Todd English