Food Quotes - Page 36

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger.

Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.

The roe of the Russian sturgeon has probably been present at more important international affairs than have all the Russian dignitaries of history combined. This seemingly simple article of diet has taken its place in the world along with pearls, sables, old silver, and Cellini cups.

But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.

The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health, depends on the nature of the preparations concocted within its walls.

All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.

Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.

The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

On how to make an egg roll: "Roll it nice and tight like a blunt."

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.

A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from the woods was free and amounted to a diurnal dining diary that everyone kept in their heads. May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and stinging nettles. July was cherries and wild strawberries. August was forest berries. September was porcini.

Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime.

Among the faithful, in the great kitchens of the world, Escoffier is to Careme what the New Testament is to the Old.

I think the great Mexican cuisine is dying because there are fast foods now competing, because there are supermarkets, and supermarkets can't afford to keep in stock a lot of these very perishable products that are used for fine Mexican cooking. Women are working and real Mexican cooking requires enormous amounts of time.

Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.