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One of the biggest dishes in Sicily is couscous, and there's always been a North African influence on Italian culture, culinary culture there.
— Jonas Carpignano
TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.
— Ambrose Bierce
This has got to be the most expensive food ever laminated.
— Marian Burros
Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?
— Frank Bruni
A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.
— Anton Chekhov
All millionaires love a baked apple.
— Ronald Firbank
He receives comfort like cold porridge.
— William Shakespeare
In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.
— H.L. Mencken
The true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.
— E. M. Forster
Spain has some of the richest culinary traditions and truly appreciates food that is simply prepared with top-notch ingredients.
— Emeril Lagasse
If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.
— George Bernard Shaw
I used to take culinary arts at Job Corps so I'm a certified chef. I could cook chicken alfredo.
— Gorilla Zoe
Cooking is not a mystery.
— Edward Espe Brown
All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.
— Hugh Casson
Brandy and water spoils two good things.
— Charles Lamb
The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.
— Bruce Jay Friedman
DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.
— Ambrose Bierce
Cassoulet, like life itself, is not so simple as it seems.
— Paula Wolfert
So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.
— Auguste Escoffier
Somehow the idyllic existence I envisioned never quite came to pass, but aside from the occasional culinary disaster, my marriage wasn't bad.
— Alexandra Bogdanovic
You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles.
— Henry Beard
Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.
— Lord Chesterfield
Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
What you eat and drink is 50 percent of life.
— Gerard Depardieu
Melissa had never really caught the culinary bug; in fact, she'd all but had herself vaccinated against it.
— Linda Lael Miller
Bring me an order of escargots, but hold the slugs.
— Orson Bean
I love fruit, when it is expensive.
— Arthur Wing Pinero
Without love, life is nothing but work and sleep.
— Amanda Usen
I'm a hedonist when it comes to culinary delights.
— Robin Wright
Culinary incompetence could explain the first six or seven meals, but more than that had to be culinary malice.
— Jeff Strand
But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.
— Jeffrey Steingarten
On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it.
— Gustave Flaubert
I'd say that my identity is really a culinary identity, so the way I relate to my national heritage is through its cuisine.
— Princess Tatiana Of Greece And Denmark
I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school.
— Tom Douglas
Not having a New York culinary tradition, far from being limiting, it's an opportunity to create freely.
— Wylie Dufresne
Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute.
— Craig Claiborne
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.
— Clifton Fadiman
People are cooking less but obsessing about it more.
— Dougie Poynter
The right food always comes at the right time. Reliance on out-of-season foods makes the gastronomic year an endlessly boring repetition.
— Roy Andries De Groot
Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
Molecular gastronomy is not bad ... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.
— Alton Brown
Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.
— Umberto Eco
Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.
— William Kitchiner
Reward is a happy customer - and an empty plate.
— Jacques Torres
I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen, that's how I know anything about cooking. I've always wanted to go to a culinary class actually.
— Serena Williams
Good Hock (Hochheimer) keeps off the Doc.
— Queen Victoria
Crushes weren't made of quick and dirty; they were made of romance and fantasies. What would she do if he called her bluff?
— Amanda Usen
I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
— Kate Christensen
I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.
— Dana Goodyear
Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.
— Samuel Johnson
Take care to chop the onion fine.
— Laura Esquivel
Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.
— William Shakespeare
Food stall owners reach out with menus, calling out their dinner selections like midway prizes
— Vicki Alayne Bradley
If cupcakes were art; Kate's would be Van Gogh's
— C.T. Mitchell
I went to school for culinary arts. I love to cook. That's a talent not a lot of people know about.
— Jessie Usher
A balanced guest list of mixed elements is to a successful party what the seasoning is to a culinary triumph.
— Letitia Baldrige
Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy.
— Nigella Lawson
Culinary science? You elected culinary science? That's the most brainless class ever. -Rose to Christian
— Richelle Mead
I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe.
— Mary-Kate Olsen
My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.
— Thomas Keller
Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.
— William Shakespeare
Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.
— Lewis Carroll
I have no formal culinary training, right.
— Thomas Keller
TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.
— Ambrose Bierce
When you're eating something and your palate tells you what's missing, that's when you start combining.
— Justin Quek
If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.
— Lin Yutang
It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.
— Lewis Carroll
I never met a Cab I didn't like.
— Graham Kerr
Wine enlivens the human soul.
— Euripides
I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.
— Flavor Flav
Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.
— John Wesley
The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.
— Mario Batali
Appetite comes with eating.
— Francois Rabelais
All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.
— William Feather
CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.
— Ambrose Bierce
Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with my colleagues.
— Luca Parmitano
And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.
— Ogden Nash
Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.
— Isabella Beeton
And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.
— George Carlin
Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.
— Andy Rooney