Culinary Quotes
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The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.
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Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.
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I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.
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Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.
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Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.
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I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.
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Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.
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Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.
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We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.
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Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!
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The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'
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A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.
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All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.
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The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.
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The soufflé is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both become quite tractable and are great glamorizers for leftover foods.
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Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.
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The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.
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...if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.
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People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing. They flew me over, and it was this immersive experience.
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In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.
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In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his estate, but of the amount of pepper in his pantry. One way of saying that a man was poor was to say that he lacked pepper. The wealthy lacked pepper. The wealthy kept large stores of pepper in their houses, and let it be known that it was there: it was a guarantee of solvency.
