Food Quotes - Page 16

Garlick maketh a man wynke, drynke, and stynke.

Two words to improve any dish. Ba, Con

The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.

Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted.

Remember, too, that at a time when people are very concerned with their health and its relationship to what they eat, we have handed over the responsibility for our nourishment to faceless corporations.

As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again.

Garlic is as good as ten mothers.

If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.

One may live without bread, not without roses.

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner

Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and pie.

I love food and I love living.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

Someone is putting brandy in your bonbons, Grand Marnier in your breakfast jam, Kahlua in your ice cream, Scotch in your mustard and Wild Turkey in your cake.

By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry'.

Patience is the secret to good food.

A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.

Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

Most people don't realize this, but you can eat organic, all natural, gluten-free food without telling everyone around you.

Food: Part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories.

Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.