Quotes About Culinary

Sandwiches were invented by the Earl of Sandwich, popcorn was invented by the Earl of Popcorn, and salad dressing by the Oil of Vinegar.

Nobody ever sees a cook eat anything.

She restored herself with a cocktail and an excellent lobster mayonnaise. Phryne was devoted to lobster mayonnaise, with cucumbers.

I made a jelly with gelatine, ginger syrup and pineapple juice. I made a crème anglaise with three eggs. I whipped a lot of cream. I chopped glacé ginger.

The last bastion of conservatism,' she commented, 'is food.

I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers.

If I can't find something on this plate to eat, that's my fault," she replied.

Chef Nicole, prior to the complex, had been the executive chef for the day care center at a start-up company in San Francisco before it went belly-up, probably because it had devoted quite a bit of money toward things like executive chefs for the day care center.

Did you know you just put the peel in the pan and the potatoes down the waste disposal?' he enquired with interest. 'It's a new recipe.' His lips twitched but his expression remained solemn. 'The results should be...interesting.

Only thing better than fresh onion is fresh onion in vinegar." She held up the vinegar jar. "I have it here, ready to go." At his look of surprise, she added, "Thomas said you especially enjoy eating onions and vinegar." "Ja, I do." He laced his fingers and pressed them to his stomach. "But I warn you, it will smell like a whole roomful of stout Germans when I am through.

I love really good food and I don't ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food.

One quart milk, one quart cream, one dozen eggs, 12 tablespoons sugar, one pint brandy, half-pint rye whiskey, quarter-pint rum, quarter-pint sherry. Mix. Store by cool window or in cellar.

We are outside again, walking, when he takes a bite and stops dead. "Wow," he says after a minute. Then, "Wow," again. I smile. Everyone remembers their first taste of Paris. This will be his.

I think this goat must have been fed on old boots,' Stubble complained as he chewed the last scraps of flesh from the bones littering his stew.

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Every salad you serve is a picture you have painted, a sculpture you have modeled, a drama you have created.

I've made some feuillantines ," he tells us with a dramatic rising of his eyes heavenward, indicating bliss. "Thin slivers of wafer flavored with ginger, clove, nutmeg and cinnamon." We coo our approval. "You have to try them." Quite frankly, who are we to argue?

Nobody knows the truffles I've seen.

I've sometimes imagined that if sin had a flavor, it might very well be bacon. It even tastes smoky, as if it emerged piping hot out of the fiery pans of hell. More than any forbidden fruit, this delectable treat — best when crispy, the little grease bubbles still dancing happily on its crenelated edges — epitomizes things we know we shouldn't eat, but still crave and keep going back to. In short, it's food crack.

It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.

I thought we were going to have chops,' complained Larry aggrievedly. 'I spent all morning getting my taste buds on tiptoe with the thought of chops. What happened to them?' 'I'm afraid it's the owls, dear,' said Mother apologetically. 'They have such huge appetites.' Larry paused, a spoonful of curry halfway to his mouth.

It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their names to eat an oyster.

When compelled to cook, I produce a meal that would make a sword swallower gag.

Cops and food, she thought. Put them in the same room, invite chaos.