Quotes on Culinary

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like a half-drowned stupid wretch condemned to labor unceasingly in water; but a now-and-then tribute to Bacchus is like the cold bath, bracing and invigorating.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.

Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

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

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.

I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure