Food Quotes - Page 12

I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.

Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour.

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian!

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!

When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.

The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

Eat to live, not live to eat.

Food simply isn't important to me.

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.

Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed.

Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

Food and wine. Decide which is the soloist, which the accompanist.

One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.

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