Culinary Quotes
There is no sight on earth more appealing than the sight of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.-Thomas Wolfe
Cooking is like love, it should be entered into with abandon or not at all.-Harriet Van Horne
Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.-Craig Claiborne
I strongly believe that culinary love is not about having a French Passport, but about what you feel.-Albert Roux
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.-Anthony Trollope, English novelist
Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.-Craig Claiborne
Well loved he garleek, oynons, and eek lekes. And for to drinken strong wyn, reed as blood.-Geoffrey Chaucer
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.-George Bernard Shaw
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 deep love of food to bring it to life.Georges Blanc
I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.-Nora Ephron
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.-George Bernard Shaw
But I always felt that I’d rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.-F. Scott Fitzgerald in This Side of Paradise
I find a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.-Madame Benoit
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.-Miguel de Cervantes
Conversation is the enemy of food and good wine.-Alfred Hitchcock
A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.-Katharine Whitehorn
When you pour yourself down as rain on earth, every living creature is filled with joy and knows food will be abundant for all.-Prashna Upanishad
Garlic is the ‘vanilla’ of Provence.-French proverb
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith-Matthew 23:23
It doesn’t matter who you are, or what you’ve done, or think you can do. There’s a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.-Daniel Pinkwater
His idea of heaven is eating pate de fois gras to the sound of trumpets.-Sydney Smith
Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.-Plato
In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.-John Gunther
Stock to a cook is voice to a singer.-Anonymous
After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual ‘food’ out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps.-Miss Piggy
Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners.-Andre Simon
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.-Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Without butter, without eggs, there is no reason to come to France.-Paul Bocuse
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.-Michel de Montaigne
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.-Samuel Pepys
Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him of the entire weekend.-Zenna Schaffer
The hostess must be like the duck calm and unruffled on the surface, and paddling like hell underneath.-Anonymous
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience and live without heart; We may live without friends; We may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks.-Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.-James Beard
Grub first, then ethics-Bertolt Brecht
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.-Charles Baudelaire
Salt is white and pure —there is something holy in salt.-Nathaniel Hawthorne
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.-E.V. Lucas
The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again.-George Miller
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday —but never jam today.-Lewis Carroll
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.-Yogi Berra
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.-John Keats
It is contrary to the will of God to eat delicate food hastily.-Chang Chao
Meat is a status dish in which the sizzle counts for more than the nutritional worth.-Magnus Pyke
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.-Sheila Graham
There is no such thing as a little garlic.-Arthur Baer
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.-WC Fields
Cauliflower is cabbage with a college education.-Mark Twain
I consider the discovery of a dish which sustains our appetite and prolongs our pleasures as a far more interesting event than the discovery of a star.-Henrion de Pensey
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn’t care to drink with— even if he drank.-H.L. Mencken
It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.-Waverly Root
While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and without warning happen upon a series of prunes in what they took to be a normal loin of pork.-Fran Lebowitz
What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It’s a sure thing. It’s a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!-Nora Ephron
Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.-Sophia Loren