Quotes About Cuisine

FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

To good eating belongs good drinking.

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

Pinky Fein, a friend of Oscar's, owns the Gilded Lily, a four-star Midtown restaurant renowned for its beggar purses- paper-thin crepes filled with créme fraîche and Beluga caviar, tied into small bundles with chives, lightly sprayed with edible gold leaf, and presented like candles in a candelabra.

I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.

Possum soup, all nice and thick with peanuts

Lobster is not going to be as tasty with ice tea unless that ice tea is from Long Island.

My mother grimaces, clearly on to my BS. She's what you'd call a health fanatic times one hundred, from the raw-ful cuisine she makes us eat to her handmade sanitary napkins (no joke: the woman actually uses kitchen sponges), and so, pepperoni-and-cheese-laden pizza ranks right up there with what fur coats are to PETA.

The Africans wouldn't consider it a real visit unless they ate.

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.

Food in Chicago is the best.

Joe ordered a steak, well-done

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

white beans, cherry tomatoes, and fresh basil, all mixed together with lime juice, olive oil, and cayenne pepper

but for Daphne, and her neighbours' travels, I would still not know that Finland had a cuisine

I would still not know that Finland had a cuisine, let alone that Kalakukko, a fish pie incorporating spiky bones and heads, was a cherished part of it. So

That's the problem with stinky tofu. It's so yummy,

I suppose the dinner will be delicious? Grand old English cooking?" "It's ever so nice tonight. We've just got a new cook." They went through to the dining-room, where they ate the usual tinned soup, tasteless plaice from the icebox in composite batter, a shaving of cold meat with hot gravy over it, tinned peas and processed cheese. A wine list was produced, and Carolus ordered a Burgundy which arrived lukewarm, and they ended with bad coffee of the same temperature.

My Spanish is limited to burrito and taco

Gravy isn't a food group." "Say what?

First course: almond soup, white fricassee, boiled cod Second course: chicken patties, jugged hare, roast venison, oyster loaves, mushrooms, cauliflower pickle Dessert: apple tart, orange cream, plums in syrup

Still riled, Agnes picked up the calf's head and plunged it into a pot with white wine, lemon pickle, walnut-and-mushroom catsup, an anchovy, a blade of mace, and a bundle of sweet herbs, then set the pot on the stove.

The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.

I have a profound and unshakable love of good eating.