Culinary Quotes

Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

The greatest dishes are very simple.

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

Nature will castigate those who don't masticate.

A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

Champagne and orange juice is a great drink. The orange improves the champagne. The champagne definitely improves the orange.

That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted.

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

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

I have no formal culinary training, right.

All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.

My culinary wardrobe is the same as my biking wardrobe, just no shoes.

When you're eating something and your palate tells you what's missing, that's when you start combining.

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

Good Hock (Hochheimer) keeps off the Doc.

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

I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

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

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