Quotes About Dining

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The dining area of the Premier Inn is geared to dispel elderly apprehensions, not to reinforce them. It is noisy and colourful and full of large busy middle-era middle England middle-aged people talking loudly and cheerfully and eating highly coloured meals, most of them from the hot red end of the spectrum.

Behind every rule of table etiquette lurks the determination of each person present to be a diner, not a dish. It is one of the chief roles of etiquette to keep the lid on the violence which the meal being eaten presupposes.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.

Whenever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent.

Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.

Fondue is not a good date food. You end up with cheese dripping down your face.

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

Bring me an order of escargots, but hold the slugs.

Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.

Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host' It isn't done.

Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?

The best part was the food. There are some great Italian restaurants we go to whenever we are in Toronto, so the eating was a definite highlight.

In taking soup, it is necessary to avoid lifting too much in the spoon, or filling the mouth so full as almost to stop the breath.

All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.

No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.

A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters.

Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too long whilst it cools. Soup should be brought to table only moderately warm.

There are certain restaurants where you should photograph the food rather than eat it. These are great places to bring a narcissistic boyfriend before you break up.

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

Prepare your food attractively and serve it nicely.