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Food doesn't exist, but can only be invented. And reinvented.
Oct 2, 2025
I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the weaker.
Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.
Without butter, without eggs, there is no reason to come to France.
God made only water, but man made wine.
If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food.
A soup so thick you could shake its hand and stroll with it before dinner.
An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.
Any part of the piggy Is quite all right with me Ham from Westphalia, ham from Parma Ham as lean as the Dalai Lama Ham from Virginia, ham from York, Trotters Sausages, hot roast pork. Crackling crisp for my teeth to grind on Bacon with or without the rind on Though humanitarian I'm not a vegetarian. I'm neither crank nor prude nor prig And though it may sound infra dig Any part of the darling pig Is perfectly fine with me.
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.
I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.
Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.
I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.
Here is a kitchen improvement, in return for Peacock. For roasting or basting a chicken, render down your fat or butter with cider: about a third cider. Let it come together slowly, till the smell of cider and the smell of fat are as one. This will enliven even a frozen chicken.
Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie.
Cheese. The adult form of milk.
It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit down to them from time to time. It was largesse that made us all; we were not created to fast forever... Enter here, therefore, as a sovereign remedy for the narrowness of our minds and the stinginess of our souls.
On 'Chopped,' the time goes down a bit and there are several ingredients, usually one that makes no sense whatsoever with the rest of the ingredients. So it gets you out of your culinary comfort zone a little bit. Like we had octopus and cheese paired up with each other.
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.
Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.
In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.
Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on miserable hardscrabble earth was actually superior to the magnificent creamy cheeses of the noblest dairy animals bred in the richest green valleys of the earth.
A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem... biting into it!
To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
Classic Recipe for Roast Beef: 1 large Roast of beef 1 small Roast of beef Take the two roasts and put them in the oven. When the little one burns, the big one is done.
I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.
We wanted to make a show that not only highlights the adventure of hunting, but also the fantastic culinary opportunities that a successful hunt can bring. It's great to have those efforts validated with a Beard nomination, and it speaks to the dedication of everyone on the MeatEater team. This honor makes us even more motivated to keep hammering out a solid, authentic hunting show that speaks to a variety of audiences.
Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards.
My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.
No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.
Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.
Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
I simply cannot imagine why anyone would eat something slimy served in an ashtray.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.
A number of rare or newly experienced foods have been claimed to be aphrodisiacs. At one time this quality was even ascribed to the tomato. Reflect on that when you are next preparing the family salad.
It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of the country as a consequence. Everybody is using coffee; this must be prevented. His Majesty was brought up on beer, and so were both his ancestors and officers. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.