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Quotes About Culinary

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.
~ Julia Child
My sister married a German. He complained he couldn't get a good bagel back home. I said: 'Well, whose fault is that?'
~ Emo Philips
Young chefs, famous chefs, home cooks, and everyone who loves food and cooking-we all depend on Larousse Gastronomique. It is the only culinary encyclopedia that is always up-to-date.
~ Daniel Boulud
You can't go into the chef's office of any serious kitchen and not see a copy of Larousse. A must-have for professional and home cooks alike.
~ David Chang
He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.
~ Craig Claiborne
I'm taking my skills to different people's homes that have stoves for it.
~ Snoop Dogg
I would just have to find a hog, slaughter it, butcher it, cure the meat, then fry it up. Thinking about the bacon—the potential of bacon—gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't. Seriously.
~ Rick Yancey, The Last Star
The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.
~ Doug Larson
You know why the French hate us so much? Thay gave us the croissant. And you know what we did with it? We turned it into our croissandwich, thank you very much.
~ Denis Leary
The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton.
~ Cecil Rhodes
I was in the Far East and I went into a restaurant and I ordered octopus and the waiter said: "It takes four hours." I asked why and he said: "It keeps turning off the gas."
~ Frank Carson
Have you seen the bologna that has the olives in it? Who's that for? 'I like my bologna like a martini. With an olive.' 'I'll have the bologna sandwich - dirty.'
~ Jim Gaffigan
Who wants avocado?
~ Wendy Lustbader
Soak blanket in gravy and make a delicious brick wrap. Serve in All Gravy Room at the Mandrake Hotel.
~ Christoph Fischer
Just remember this, Missy, escargot ain't nothin' but snails with their noses stuck in the air.
~ Lois Greiman, Unzipped
Ish #1 "It's not your mama's macaroni and cheese if you used spaghetti noodles.
~ Regina Griffin
Parsley is gharsley.
~ Ogden Nash, Food
Couldn't he have come out and greeted her like a civil human being instead of lurking from his kitchen while she shared a clearly intimate moment with his brisket?
~ Tracy Ewens, Taste
A six mile meteorite cannot compare with a culinary cataclysm of this magnitude.
~ Michelle Franklin
Enjoy your Evening.""That will depend on the menu. If it's beef, it will be a tolerable meal. If it's chicken..." Elliot shuddered. "What is the point of chicken?""Eggs?
~ Anne Bishop, Written in Red
She complains that I'm lazy, but I just like to save my energy for dinner.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.
~ Julia Child
Nothing stimulates the practiced cook's imagination like an egg.
~ Irma S. Rombauer