Culinary Quotes

Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

The greatest dishes are very simple.

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

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

Nature will castigate those who don't masticate.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have no formal culinary training, right.

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

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

Good Hock (Hochheimer) keeps off the Doc.

I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

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

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.

Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?

Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?

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

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.

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

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

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.

Appetite, a universal wolf.

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

I never met a Cab I didn't like.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Each city has its own culinary landscape.

Food doesn't exist, but can only be invented. And reinvented.