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Quotes About Cuisine

I lived in Cyprus for six years where I learnt all about flatbreads.
~ Paul Hollywood
I love to cook. I love to cook for myself and my husband and big groups. I find it very relaxing, and I love socializing around a dinner table.
~ Cara Buono
Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table.
~ Kelli O'Hara
I like a nice chicken taco. And of course fajitas.
~ Lil Jon
The Korean taco was a phenomenon... It just came out of us. We didn't really think about it.
~ Roy Choi
One meal I'm constantly reminded about is when I ate kangaroo tail in the desert in Australia; it wasn't necessarily my favorite, but I will always remember it.
~ Rob Machado
I'm Southern, so alligator tail is pretty interesting and yummy.
~ LeAnn Rimes
My favorite thing about Taiwan is the food.
~ Jason Wu
The food in Taiwan is pretty great.
~ Danilo Gallinari
All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.
~ Michael Chang
The cuisine was French and Japanese, snow peas or glazed carrots arranged with surgical precision around thin and, to Jonny, mostly tasteless cuts of beef. When he commented on this to Conover, the smuggler explained to him that the meat came from Canadian herds that still consumed grain and grazed in open fields, not the genetically altered beasts that hung from straps, limbless and eyeless, in the Tijuana protein factories.
~ Richard Kadrey
By the time I left Phnom Penh I could have written a Cambodian cookbook called 50 Ways to Wok Your Dog.
~ Richard Marcinko
There exists a bastard cuisine that is too often assumed to be real French cooking.
~ Richard Olney
Chin now joined chai (tea) and shchi (cabbage soup) to form a triad around which revolved a great deal of Russian life.
~ Richard Pipes
Every dish in the ferial cuisine, however, provides a double or treble delight: Not only is the body nourished and the palate pleased, the mind is intrigued by the triumph of ingenuity over scarcity - by the making of slight materials into a considerable matter. A man can do worse than to be poor. He can miss altogether the sight of the greatness of small things.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
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~ Kenneth Grahame
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
~ Ambrose Bierce
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
~ H. L. Mencken
I want to eat good Italian food and get better at their language. It seems so romantic too.
~ Kristin Chenoweth
There's nothing more romantic than Italian food.
~ Elisha Cuthbert
There is a difference between dining and eating. Dining is an art. When you eat to get most out of your meal, to please the palate, just as well as to satiate the appetite, that,my friend, is dining.
~ Yuan Mei
They made Caesar salad with Cashel Blue cheese. They made Irish lobster confit in Kerrygold butter. They made black pudding the way Fergus remembered it from his childhood, and lamb sausages so delicate they almost melted in your mouth. Everything they put on the menu got raves.
~ Deborah Crombie
Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.
~ Paul Bocuse
My husband in the kitchen never looked like anything other than a cheerful Kodiak trained in the glories of French cuisine, a glass of Malbec held careless in one hairy paw and a knife in the other.
~ Jeff Vandermeer