Culinary Quotes
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The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.
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I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.
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Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.
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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 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 will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.
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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 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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Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.
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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 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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In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.
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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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Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.
