Cooking Culinary Quotes Page 2

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food.

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat;

They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.

In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.

You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables.

The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.

My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.

I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.

Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.

The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad, but bread is king.

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.

As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.

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

Even now, when I do a slide show of the Geek Squad story, the first slide is a photo of ramen noodles. Because for me, ramen noodles are the international symbol for struggle.

In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious.

Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

Garlic is as good as ten mothers.

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

Garlick maketh a man wynke, drynke, and stynke.

The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one.

It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.

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.

I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

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

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

I think every woman should have a blowtorch.

Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.