Food Quotes - Page 60

I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.

The savor of the water mint rejoiceth the heart of men.

I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.

Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.

A carbonated wine foisted upon Americans (who else would drink it?) by winery ad agencies as a way of getting rid of inferior champagne by mixing it with inferior burgundy.

I prefer not to eat food that has a face.

Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.

In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.

Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish. Rather than being reprimanded, they were often hauled into the dining room and flogged in the presence of the guests.

In taking soup, it is necessary to avoid lifting too much in the spoon, or filling the mouth so full as almost to stop the breath.

Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.

I've long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs. There are few sights that appeal to me more than the streaks of lean and fat in a good side of bacon, or the lovely round of pinkish meat framed in delicate white fat that is Canadian bacon. Nothing is quite as intoxicating as the smell of bacon frying in the morning, save perhaps the smell of coffee brewing.

Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.

I love good food and I love to eat in nice restaurants. I love Japanese food. I love Gordon Ramsay in London; he is pretty amazing.

Eggs are very much like small boys. If you overheat them or over beat them, they will turn on you and no amount of future love will right the wrong.

Never trust a skinny cook.

All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.

I forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin.

It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.

...the act of eating,which hath by several wise men been considered as extremely mean and derogatory from the philosophic dignity, must be in some measure performed by the greatest prince, hero, or philosopher upon earth; nay, sometimes Nature hath been so frolicsome as to exact of these dignified characters a much more exorbitant share of this office than she hath obliged those of the lowest orders to perform.