3.
As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.
Hattie McDaniel
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
16.
When you're eating something and your palate tells you what's missing, that's when you start combining.
Justin Quek
17.
My culinary wardrobe is the same as my biking wardrobe, just no shoes.
Lela Rose
18.
Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.
Truman Capote
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.
It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.
Ruth Reichl
25.
An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.
Oliver Herford
27.
Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.
William Shakespeare
28.
If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.
Robert Morley
29.
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.
William Penn
31.
Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?
Marilyn Monroe
32.
I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.
Action Bronson
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.
Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.
William Kitchiner
35.
Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.
Julia Child
36.
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
37.
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
38.
Ethnic, cultural, artistic and culinary diversity. LA...a feast for the senses.
Yasmine Bleeth
40.
It is contrary to the will of God to eat delicate food hastily.
Zhang Zhao
41.
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
47.
The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.
Bruce Jay Friedman
48.
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
49.
This has got to be the most expensive food ever laminated.
Marian Burros
50.
The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament.
Monica Baldwin