Culinary Quotations | Page 2

Chef: Any cook who swears in French.

Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.

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

The high school students had as much fun as the younger children. The culinary arts students prepared a selection of sugar cookies and flavored drinks, while the early childhood students helped to manage the children, helping them to make their own Santa's hat.

It's food too fine for angels, yet come, take and eat thy fill!

And now, dear Lord, I cannot wait Because I have a luncheon date.

Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.

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.

No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.

Nutrition makes me puke.

It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.

Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.

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

Good Hock (Hochheimer) keeps off the Doc.

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

All millionaires love a baked apple.

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

Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.

The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.

I know my limit. I just keep passing out before I reach it.

I have no formal culinary training, right.

Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and light and still warm from the frying. Not too sugary.

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

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

All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.

I fell in love with food because of my mother. So, I will definitely be sharing and expanding more recipes from my culture (as well as many other cultures), and will be sharing recipes that I have experienced from my whole culinary life.

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

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

He receives comfort like cold porridge.

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.

CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.

HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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

Wine enlivens the human soul.

In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.

I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.

Velveeta: you can eat it - or wax your car with it!

The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.