Culinary Quotes
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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.
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The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.
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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.
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Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you.
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Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.
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If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
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Bread is a staple article of diet in theory, rather than in practice. There are few who are truly fond of bread in its simplest, most pure, and most healthful state.... Is there one person in a thousand who would truly enjoy a meal of simple bread of two days old?
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Cuisine is when things taste like themselves.
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The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.
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'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.
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Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.
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He receives comfort like cold porridge.
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Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.
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The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for the lack of chicken. In the same way, the chief requisite for the history of science is intimate scientific knowledge; no amount of philosophic legerdemain can make up for its absence.
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Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.
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Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.
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Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on miserable hardscrabble earth was actually superior to the magnificent creamy cheeses of the noblest dairy animals bred in the richest green valleys of the earth.
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The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.
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The confection made of Cacao called Chocolate or Chocoletto which may be had in diverse places in London, at reasonable rates, is of wonderful efficacy for the procreation of children: for it not only vehemently incites to Venus, but causes conception in women . . . and besides that it preserves health, for it makes such as take it often to become fat and corpulent, fair and amiable.
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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.
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Not having a New York culinary tradition, far from being limiting, it's an opportunity to create freely.
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I found most of my learning has taken place after culinary college, when I travelled and met chefs and non-chefs.
