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Culinary Quotes

1.
Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.
Auguste Escoffier

Authors on Culinary Quotes: William Shakespeare Julia Child Auguste Escoffier Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Marilyn Monroe Monica Baldwin Hattie McDaniel Oliver Herford Adam Richman Queen Victoria Graham Kerr Samuel Johnson Horace Fletcher Hector Hugh Munro Yasmine Bleeth Justin Quek Zhang Zhao Diane Mott Davidson Padma Lakshmi Gustave Flaubert Thomas Keller Lou Costello George Carlin William Feather Karla Souza Charles Dudley Warner Kevin Steele Truman Capote Philip the Apostle Louis Pullig De Gouy Marian Burros William Kitchiner Mary Catherine Bateson
2.
The greatest dishes are very simple.
Auguste Escoffier

3.
As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.
Hattie McDaniel

4.
In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

5.
Nature will castigate those who don't masticate.
Horace Fletcher

6.
A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.
Curt Siodmak

7.
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
Charles Dudley Warner

8.
It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
Julia Child

9.
Champagne and orange juice is a great drink. The orange improves the champagne. The champagne definitely improves the orange.
Philip the Apostle

10.
That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted.
Lou Costello

11.
Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.
Julia Child

12.
When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.
William Feather

13.
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

14.
When you're eating something and your palate tells you what's missing, that's when you start combining.
Justin Quek

15.
My culinary wardrobe is the same as my biking wardrobe, just no shoes.
Lela Rose

16.
I have no formal culinary training, right.
Thomas Keller

17.
All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.
Michael Palin

18.
Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.
Truman Capote

19.
Good Hock (Hochheimer) keeps off the Doc.
Queen Victoria

20.
I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.
Flavor Flav

21.
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
Ben Bradlee

22.
And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.
George Carlin

23.
The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
Hector Hugh Munro

24.
Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.
William Shakespeare

25.
If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.
Robert Morley

26.
It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.
Ruth Reichl

27.
An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.
Oliver Herford

28.
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
Mary Catherine Bateson

29.
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.
William Penn

30.
The soufflé is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both become quite tractable and are great glamorizers for leftover foods.
Irma S. Rombauer

31.
Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?
William Shakespeare

32.
Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?
Marilyn Monroe

33.
Clam chowder is one of those subjects, like politics or religion, that can never be discussed lightly. Bring it up even incidentally, and all the innumerable factions of the clam bake regions raise their heads and begin to yammer.
Louis Pullig De Gouy

34.
I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.
Action Bronson

35.
Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.
William Kitchiner

36.
Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.
Julia Child

37.
On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it.
Gustave Flaubert

38.
Appetite, a universal wolf.
William Shakespeare

39.
Ethnic, cultural, artistic and culinary diversity. LA...a feast for the senses.
Yasmine Bleeth

40.
I never met a Cab I didn't like.
Graham Kerr

41.
It is contrary to the will of God to eat delicate food hastily.
Zhang Zhao

42.
Mexican food is one of the best culinary experiences that people can have.
Karla Souza

43.
Seafood on the grill can be intimidating if you don't know what you are doing. It's really quite easy
Kevin Steele

44.
I like to cook. I would probably go to culinary school in France if I had time.
Jessica Alba

45.
People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing. They flew me over, and it was this immersive experience.
Adam Richman

46.
This has got to be the most expensive food ever laminated.
Marian Burros

47.
The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament.
Monica Baldwin

48.
When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore.
Diane Mott Davidson

49.
Each city has its own culinary landscape.
Padma Lakshmi

50.
Food doesn't exist, but can only be invented. And reinvented.
Joyce Carol Oates