The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language
barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart. — Samuel Chamberlain
Great food needed more than chefs; it needed gourmet diners. — Nicole Mones
The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.' — Marie-Antoine Careme
A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral. — Fernand Point
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch. — James Beard
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. — James Beard
Through my work and travels I have been lucky enough to have been exposed to various eclectic cuisine running the gamut from small local cafes to iconic five-star restaurants. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow. — Kathy Mattea
to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world. — Marie-Antoine Careme
Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience. — LeRoy Neiman
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. — Robert M. Parker, Jr.
since we must eat to live, we might as well do it with both grace and gusto. — M. F. K. Fisher
Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself. — Delia Smith
Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled. — Frederic Raphael
Short Gastronomic Quotes
Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
You're not an M.P., you're a gastronomic pimp. — Aneurin Bevan
Cheese steaks are the gastronomic icons of this ethnic city. — Bryan Miller
Cheese steaks are the gastronomic icons of this ethnic city. — Bryan Q. Miller
Indianapolis versus Denver would not be a great one gastronomically. — Mario Batali
Gourmet Quotes
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. — Adelle Davis
Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook. — Ronald Reagan
I say everything's about company. A gourmet meal with an asshole is a horrible meal. A hot dog with an interesting person is an amazing meal. — Chris Rock
Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty. — Lora Brody
Today's food trucks are far from cheap eats on wheels, there are some seriously gourmet offerings on four wheels. — Tyler Florence
I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole. — Julia Child
Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them. — Ken Keyes Jr.
A gourmet knows that the best part is not always the expensive part, and he will find that part, and then he will share it. A gourmet should want to share. — Mark Kurlansky
We often feed the critic gourmet meals and starve the rest. — Angeles Arrien
Gourmet Food Quotes
Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes. — Walter Moers
A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet. — M. F. K. Fisher
Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one. — Mark Kurlansky
It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status. — Russell Baker
For a gourmet wine is not a drink but a condiment, provided that your host has chosen correctly. — Edouard de Pomiane
You might be a redneck if you consider pork and beans to be a gourmet food. — Jeff Foxworthy
A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom. — M. F. K. Fisher
If you're afraid of butter, use cream. — Julia Child
Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen. My mother was a gourmet chef and I'm the youngest of five kids. We would always congregate in the kitchen. — Laura Prepon
Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Cuisine Quotes
Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.
English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness. — Auguste Escoffier
Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra. — Paul Bocuse
The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill. — Paul Bocuse
Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness. — Auguste Escoffier
As far as cuisine is concerned one must read everything, see everything, hear everything, try everything, observe everything, in order to retain in the end, just a little bit. — Fernand Point
New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun. — Poppy Z. Brite
Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature. — Carlo Petrini
A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting. — Charlie Trotter
If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork. — James Beard
A gastronomer who is not an environmentalis t is just stupid. Whereas an environmentalis t who is not a gastronomer is sad. It's possible to change the world even while preserving the concept of the right of pleasure. — Carlo Petrini
Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba. — Julia Child
Any gastronome who is not an environmentalist is stupid, and any environmentalist who is not a gastronome is sad. — Carlo Petrini
After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs. — William Safire
...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out. — E. M. Forster
The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness. — Mark Kurlansky
A gastronomical supermeal didn't necessarily have to involve the things I had brought from other top kitchens. — Rene Redzepi
. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant; six people . . . dining in a good home. — M. F. K. Fisher
Every Super Bowl, I do different food each quarter from each of the hometowns of the teams competing. So I’m always hoping for cities with a gastronomic soul—not so much Indianapolis or Denver, right? For halftime we have New York hot dogs from Papaya Dog. And at the end of the game I’ve chosen a dessert based on who I think is going to win. — Mario Batali
The kitchen, reasonably enough, was the scene of my first gastronomic adventure. I was on all fours. I crawled into the vegetable bin, settled on a giant onion and ate it, skin and all. It must have marked me for life, for I have never ceased to love the hearty flavor of raw onions. — James Beard
In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. — Anthony Bourdain
The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to turn anyone into a budding gastronome — Claudia Roden
I simply believe food is too good to throw away - and Christmas leftovers can be a gastronomic opportunity for the well-skilled kitchen forager. With a little imagination, there are a million ways to use up leftovers rather than bin them. — Tristram Stuart
Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling fungus, I never eat or cook mushrooms. — Mary Virginia Terhune
One thing that has been fascinating to me is the exploding interest in traditional American barbecue in Europe. We Americans have historically always imported food ideas from other places, and now we are exporting this gastronomic treasure called barbecue. — Steven Raichlen
We have very professional, amazing chefs that are contestants. Most of them have their own restaurants and are settled, recognized chefs in Mexico. That gives the show [Top Chef] a different level completely; the gastronomic level is very high. It makes it all more interesting and the competition is just harder and harder. — Ana Claudia Talancon
EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,' said Brillat-Savarin, beginning an anecdote. 'What!' interrupted Rochebriant; 'eating dinner in a drawing-room?' 'I must beg you to observe, monsieur,' explained the great gastronome, 'that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before.' — Ambrose Bierce
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
I'm a gastronome first and foremost. I have several bookshelves in my home full of cookbooks, foodie magazines and food writer books and I am always on the hunt for a great recipe or local foodie haunt to try. — Karen Walker
We'll work with any designer producing something linked to gastronomy. So a chair for the dining area, a van to move food around. Anything that's connected to the gastronomic process. — Ferran Adria
A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would be in living in the midst of good cheer, in the country of truffles, partridges, truffled turkeys, and so forth. "Alas!" replied with a sigh the sad gastronomer, "can one really live at all in a country where there is no fresh sea-fish?" — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their nature. Tell them stories of physical injury or financial ruin and they will either laugh or commiserate politely. But tell them you are facing gastronomic hardship, and they will move heaven and earth and even restaurant tables to help you. — Peter Mayle
Bouillabaisse, this golden soup, this incomparable golden soup which embodies and concentrates all the aromas of our shores and which permeates, like an ecstasy, the stomachs of astonished gastronomes. Bouillabaisse is one of those classic dishes whose glory has encircled the world, and the miracle consists of this: there are as many bouillabaisses as there are good chefs or cordon bleus. Each brings to his own version his special touch. — Curnonsky
A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of the bookmaker and etcher, will be required to compose the cookbook par excellence. — George Ellwanger
In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. ... With the best restaurants in New York, you'll find something similar to it in Paris or Copenhagen or Chicago. But there is no place like New Orleans. So it's a must-see city because there's no explaining it, no describing it. You can't compare it to anything. So, far and away New Orleans. — Anthony Bourdain
We in Britain stopped evolving gastronomically with the advent of the pie. Everything beyond that seemed like a brave, frightening new world. We knew the French were up to something across the Channel, but we didn't want anything to do with it. — John Oliver
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