Quotes on Culinary

We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food

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

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with it's clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.

My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where_x000D_ _x000D_ the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry_x000D_ _x000D_ meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.

A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen.

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

I wanted to share my doubts and my culinary, amorous, and cosmic experiences. So I wrote 'Like Water for Chocolate,' which is merely the reflection of who I am as a woman, a wife, a mother, a daughter.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

Here's a thought: what if we ban the word 'healthy food' from our culinary vocabulary? I'm not talking about banning foods that are considered healthy. I'm talking about changing the way we think about food overall.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.