Quotes About Cuisine

It wasn't the wine,' murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. 'It was the salmon.' (Somehow or other, it never is the wine, in these cases.)

Young John was some time absent, and, when he came back, showed that he had been outside by bringing with him fresh butter in a cabbage leaf, some thin slices of boiled ham in another cabbage leaf, and a little basket of water-cresses and salad herbs. When these were arranged upon the table to his satisfaction, they sat down to tea.

The first dish is a cabbage, boiled with a great quantity of rice in a tureen full of water, and flavoured with cheese. It is so hot, and we are so cold, that it appears almost jolly. The second dish is some little bits of pork, fried with pigs' kidneys. The third, two red fowls. The fourth, two little red turkeys. The fifth, a huge stew of garlic and truffles, and I don't know what else; and this concludes the entertainment.

Next time, order a chimichanga — just because it's fun to say.

Practice safe eating — always use condiments.

My dear young lady, there's no such thing as a little garlic.

A salad is not a meal. It is a style.

Animals have two functions in today's society, to be delicious and to fit well.

Eu não sou vegetariano, mas como animais que são.

El Torito rescued the meals from the mythologizing amnesia of Southern California and introduced them to areas where customers didn't know how to pronounce the meals they waited for in hour-long lines.

tomatoes, corn, and chile peppers, found lives outside the Mexican diet and came to define other cuisines. And then there's the two filched foods: vanilla and chocolate, indisputably Mexican, beloved by almost all, creators of fortunes for nearly everyone but their motherland.

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called in sick. Ironically, the reason was food poisoning, perhaps caused by sampling one of the hospital's entrées.

Orange juice and barbecue sauce. Then slow cook them at two fifty for four hours.

For dinner, we had a mix of radiation rat, charred chipmunk, and nuclear squirrel. It was absolutely disgusting. And absolutely delicious. "This is just like the old days," I reminisced, tearing into the gamey flesh.

I try and eat good. On the road, that's next to impossible. And we eat a lot of unhealthy things when we're in Texas - that's what you do there.

I think it would be a bit miserable going out with somebody who was totally uninterested in food.

France has become the second-largest consumer of pizza per person, per pound, in the world, behind the United States and ahead of Italy.

Food feeds our souls. It is the single great unifier across all cultures. The table offers a sanctuary and a place to come together for unity and understanding.

I went to university in Birmingham in the 1970s just when the curry revolution was starting in Britain.

What they've found so far in the Amazon is 5 percent of what there is yet to discover to eat in the Amazon because it's completely unknown. I've eaten things I've never eaten before over there.

American food is the food of immigrants. You go back a couple of hundred years, and we were all immigrants, unless we're going to talk about Native American cuisine.

Portugal has amazing seafood with all the eyeballs staring back at you.

A lot of country pubs will receive Michelin stars.