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Tag Name "Culinary" (617)

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The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.
Truman Capote
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But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.
Benjamin Franklin
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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.
Victor Hugo
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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.
Victor Hugo
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Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.
Andy Rooney
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Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.
Andy Rooney
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So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.
Auguste Escoffier
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf
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What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.
Andrew Marvell
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Chicken may be eaten constantly without becoming nauseating.
Andre Simon
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Food without wine is a corpse wine without food is a ghost united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners.
Andre Simon
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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.
Voltaire
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Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.
Walt Kelly
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EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.
Ambrose Bierce
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DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.
Ambrose Bierce
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CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.
Ambrose Bierce
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MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.
Ambrose Bierce
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NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.
Ambrose Bierce
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Ambrose Bierce
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CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.
Ambrose Bierce
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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
Ambrose Bierce
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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
Ambrose Bierce
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