A listing of the quotes I’ve featured from the start of this blog (all praise ‘da Google’ by the way, for providing a seemingly endless variety of pretty pithy quotes suitable for almost any occasion). Go forth and cite!
April 11, 2010:
Life’s a banquet and most poor suckers are
starving to death!
~Auntie Mame
April 16, 2010:
Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying
of all foods; good bread with fresh butter, the
greatest of feasts!
~James Beard
April 24, 2010:
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly.
Tuna fish casserole is at least as real as
corporate stock.
~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
May 2, 2010:
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and
drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as
well as a necessity.
~Voltaire
May 8, 2010:
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what
you like and let the food fight it out inside.
~Mark Twain
May 17,2010:
Tell me what you eat, I’ll tell you who you are.
~Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
May 23, 2010:
My favorite animal is steak.
~Fran Lebowitz
May 31, 2010:
The only time to eat diet food is while you’re
waiting for the steak to cook.
~Julia Child
June 4, 2010:
Cheese – milk’s leap toward immortality.
~Clifton Paul Fadiman
June 11, 2010:
Red meat is not bad for you.
Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you!
~Tommy Smothers
June 17, 2010:
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
~Author Unknown
June 20, 2010:
I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking,
sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the
day he killed himself.
~Johnny Carson
June 26, 2010:
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody
forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had
to live on nothing but food and water.
~W. C. Fields
July 3, 2010:
I went to a restaurant that serves ‘Breakfast at
any time’. So I ordered French Toast during the
Renaissance.
~Steven Wright
July 8, 2010:
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the
light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks
for your food and for the joy of living. If you see
no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
~Tecumseh
July 19, 2010:
When you flip anything, you really… you just have
to have the courage of your convictions.
~Julia Child
August 13, 2010:
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure
not a slight pleasure.
~ Michel de Montaigne
August 25, 2010:
Food is our common ground,
a universal experience.
~James Beard
September 7, 2010:
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well,
if one has not dined well.
~Virginia Woolf
September 15, 2010:
I often take exercise.
Why only yesterday I had my breakfast in bed.
~Oscar Wilde
September 26, 2010:
We should look for someone to eat and drink with
before looking for something to eat and drink.
~Epicurus
October 6, 2010:
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we
have at least to consider the possibility that we
have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae
on our hands.
~Douglas Adams
October 14, 2010:
A nickel will get you on the subway,
but garlic will get you a seat.
~Old New York Proverb
October 22, 2010:
The food here is terrible,
and the portions are too small.
~Woody Allen
October 29, 2010:
I feel the end approaching.
Quick, bring me my dessert, coffee and liqueur.
~Brillat-Savarin’s great aunt Pierette
November 7, 2010:
To the European, a Yankee is an American.
To an American, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To a New Englander, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
To a Vermonter, a Yankee is someone who eats
apple pie for breakfast.
And to a Vermonter who eats apple pie for
breakfast,
a Yankee is someone who eats it with a knife.
~An old Yankee joke
November 18, 2010:
The greatest dishes are very simple dishes
~Escoffier
December 7, 2010:
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because
I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
~Yogi Berra
December 20, 2010:
Firelight will not let you read fine stories; but it is
warm, and you won’t see the dust on the floor.
~An Irish Proverb
December 25, 2010:
Cast a bright light in the winter gloom.
~ Amy Dickinson
January 1, 2011:
Out of many, we are one
~Barack Obama
New Year’s Day Bonus:
If more of us valued food and cheer and song
above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
~J. R. R. Tolkien
January 8, 2011:
I love deadlines.
I like the whooshing sound they make
as they fly by.
~Douglas Adams
January 14, 2011:
If it’s not edible, it’s not food.
If it’s not wearable, it’s not fashion
~Alber Elbaz
January 20, 2011:
Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a
ferret a shave.
No matter how careful you are, somebody’s
going to get hurt.
~Alton Brown
January 31, 2011:
My doctor told me to stop having
intimate dinners for four;
unless there are three other people.
~Orson Welles
February 10, 2011:
Don’t be a fuddy-duddy with your hollandaise;
be bold, dunk your pretzels in it!
~ Miss Piggy
February 21, 2011:
Research tells us fourteen out of any
ten individuals likes chocolate.
~Sandra Boynton
February 28, 2011:
Aunt Voula:
What do you mean he don’t eat no meat?
[the entire room stops, in shock]
Aunt Voula:
Oh, that’s okay. I make lamb.
~My Big Fat Greek Wedding
March 13, 2011:
I seldom end up where I wanted to go,
but almost always end up where I need to be.
~Douglas Adams
March 21, 2011:
Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison,
and everything I don’t eat has been proved to be indispensable for life.
But I go marching on.
~George Bernard Shaw
March 28, 2011:
It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate – you
know someone’s fingers have been all over it.
~Julia Child on Nouvelle Cuisine
April 6, 2011:
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. ~John Keats
April 14, 2011:
Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
~Erma Bombeck
April 20, 2011:
Eggs Benedict is genius. Its eggs covered in eggs.
I mean, come on, that person should be the president.
~Wylie Dufresne
April 28, 2011:
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
~Carl Sagan
May 11, 2011:
Food is not about impressing people. It’s about making them feel comfortable.
~Ina Garten
May 16, 2011:
After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual “food” out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps.
~Miss Piggy
May 25, 2011:
Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.
~Julia Child
June 6, 2011:
Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.
~Epictetus
June 20, 2011:
It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption.
~Edward Bunyard, ‘The Anatomy of Dessert’
July 1, 2011:
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.
~Erma Bombeck
July 10, 2011:
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
~P. G. Wodehouse
July 28, 2011:
One of the delights of life is eating with friends, second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends. ~Laurie Colwin
August 6, 2011:
If life gives you a lemon, make lemonade.
HOWEVER – if life gives you a pickle, you might as well give up, because pickle-ade is disgusting. ~Clifton J. Gray
August 12, 2011:
Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap,
and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt. ~Scott Adams
August 22, 2011:
Vegetarianism is harmless enough,
though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
~Sir Robert Hutchinson
September 1, 2011:
Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos.
~Don Kardong
September 15, 2011:
Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.
~Mark Twain
September 24, 2011:
It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. ~Lewis Grizzard
October 4, 2011:
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
~Douglas Adams
October 10, 2011:
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
~P. G. Wodehouse
October 14, 2001:
Plain fresh bread, its crust shatteringly crisp.
Sweet cold butter.
There is magic in the way they come together in your mouth to make a single perfect bite.
~Ruth Reichl
October 21, 2011:
I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
~Oscar Wilde
October 28, 2011:
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living,
but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
November 4, 2011:
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
~Oscar Wilde
November 11, 2011:
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
~Douglas Adam
November 18, 2011:
It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: “THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE.” Loosely translated, this means, “You’re on your own, Bernice.” ~Erma Bombeck
November 25, 2011:
Enchant, stay beautiful and graceful, but do this, eat well.
Bring the same consideration to the preparation of your
food as you devote to your appearance.
Let your dinner be a poem, like your dress. ~Charles Pierre Monselet
December 2, 2011:
Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you.
So if you are having one, you might as well have two.
~Chef Alain Ducasse
December 9, 2011:
A philosopher is a person who doesn’t care which side his bread is buttered on;
he knows he eats both sides anyway. ~ Dr. Joyce Brother
December 16, 2011:
A messy kitchen is a happy kitchen, and this kitchen is delirious. ~Anonymous
December 23, 2011:
Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It’s always the next Christmas.
~Joanne Woodward
December 30, 2011:
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
~Louis Pasteur
January 6, 2012:
A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly,
it is a canvas on which you can embroider.
~Roger Vergé
January 13, 2012:
According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad:
a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up. ~John Gerard
January 20, 2012:
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in it’s evocation of innocence and delight. ~MFK Fisher
January 27, 2012:
Food is an important part of a balanced diet. ~Fran Lebowitz
February 3, 2012:
A pâté is nothing more than French meat loaf that’s had a couple of cocktails.
~Carole Cutler
February 10, 2012:
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis. ~Clemenza, in “The Godfather”
February 17, 2012:
A well made sauce will make even an elephant or a grandfather palatable.
~Grimod de la Reynière
February 24, 2012:
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied
by a good cut of meat. ~Fran Lebowitz
March 2, 2012:
Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster. ~Ferran Adrià
March 9, 2012:
A host at a table where a guest is obliged to ask, is a host dishonored.
~Baron Brisse
March 16, 2012:
Chef: Any cook who swears in French. ~Henry Beard and Roy McKié
March 23, 2012:
The story of barbecue is the story of America: Settlers arrive on great unspoiled continent, discover wondrous riches, set them on fire and eat them. ~Vince Staten
March 30, 2012:
*Made you look!
Septem convivium, novem convitium – (Seven’s a banquet, nine a brawl) ~Proverb
April 6, 2012:
How do they taste? They taste like more. ~H.L. Mencken
April 13, 2012:
A new British survey has revealed that 9 out of 10 people like chocolate. The tenth lies. ~Robert Paul
April 20, 2012:
Givers of great dinners know few enemies ~Unattributed
April 27, 2012:
Everything in moderation… including moderation. ~Julia Child
May 4, 2012:
Eat bad soup with a large spoon ~Persian Proverb
May 11, 2012:
A little lemon juice makes everything taste better. ~Virginia Sanborn Burleigh
May 18, 2012:
A porkchop in the kitchen is a porkchop; a porkchop in Proust is Proust. ~William Gaso
May 25, 2012:
The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken. Bon appétit. ~Julia Child
June 1, 2012:
Chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation. ~Clementine Paddleford
June 8, 2012:
As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I’ll take roast chicken and dumplings.
~Hattie McDaniel
June 15, 2012:
Blood may be thicker than water, but it’s certainly not as thick as ketchup.
Nor does it go as well with French fries. ~Jarod Kintz
June 22, 2012:
If you’re afraid of butter, use cream. ~Julia Child
June 29, 2012:
Kill a cow, start a fire, the magic begins. ~Barbeque T Shirt
July 7, 2012:
Always remember: If you’re alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who’s going to know? ~Julia Child
July 12, 2012:
Nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should. ~Julia Child
July 20, 2012:
Life itself is the proper binge. ~Julia Child
July 27, 2012:
How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex? ~Julia Child
August 3, 2012:
I think every woman should have a blowtorch. ~Julia Child
August 10, 2012:
One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can,
and bear with it if you cannot. ~Julia Child
August 17, 2012:
I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
August 24, 2012:
I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food. ~Erma Bombeck
August 31, 2012:
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. ~Aesop
September 7, 2012:
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. ~Robert Morley
September 14, 2012:
There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man. ~Philip Gibbs
September 21, 2012:
Life is a shipwreck. But we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire
September 28, 2012:
Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. ~William Shakespeare
October 5, 2012:
It ain’t burnt, Rosemary, it’s blackened. ~Bunny Mathews
October 12, 2012:
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. ~Fran Lebowitz
October 19, 2012:
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein
October 26, 2012:
I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm. ~Robert Farrar Capon
November 2, 2012:
And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
~William Shakespeare
November 9, 2012:
No one is born a great cook, one learns by doing. ~Julia Child, My Life in France
November 16, 2012:
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation.
If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend. ~Ward McAllister
November 23, 2012:
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure.
In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude. ~Julia Child
November 30, 2012:
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
~Charles de Gaulle
December 7, 2012:
This is the entire quote (about working with yeast), which was just too long to place at the top o’ the blog for the week:
Ye gods! But you’re not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. […] [T]he dough takes care of itself. […] While you cannot speed up the process, you can slow it down at any point by setting the dough in a cooler place […] then continue where you left off, when you are ready to do so. In other words, you are the boss of that dough.
~Julia Child
December 14, 2012:
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. ~Thomas Keller
December 21, 2012:
What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
~Phyllis Diller
December 28, 2012:
Invest in what’s real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn’t have to be complicated. It will be what it will be. ~Gwyneth Paltrow
January 1, 2013:
If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone. ~Robert Fulghum
January 11, 2013:
If you throw a lamb chop in the oven, what’s to keep it from getting done?
~Joan Crawford, as Crystal Allen, in ‘The Women’
January 18, 2013:
Fat gives things flavor. ~Julia Child
January 25, 2013:
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying. ~Fran Lebowitz
February 1, 2013:
All cooking is a matter of time. In general, the more time the better. ~John Erskine
February 8, 2013:
All sorrows are less with bread. ~Miguel de Cervantes
February 15, 2013:
A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.
~Hermione Gingold
February 22, 2013:
Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provençal sun, but it has another virtue – it drives away flies. ~Frederic Mistral
March 1, 2013:
For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. ~Nelson Mandela
March 8, 2013:
Too few people understand a really good sandwich. ~James Beard
March 15, 2013:
Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. ~Ruth Reichl
March 22, 2013:
Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness. ~John Ruskin
March 29, 2013:
It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world. ~Alison Croggon
April 5, 2013:
After a full belly all is poetry. ~Frank McCourt
April 12, 2013:
The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art,
one of the joys of civilized living. ~Dione Lucas
April 21, 2013:
Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it’s easy. ~ Nigella Lawson, ‘How to Be a Domestic Goddess’
April 29, 2013:
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. ~Douglas Adams
May 6, 2013:
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. ~Dorothy Draper
May 13, 2013:
In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal. ~Julia Child
May 20, 2013:
Cooking is not about being the best or most perfect cook, but rather it is about sharing the table with family and friends. ~ Skye Gyngell, My Favorite Ingredients
May 27, 2013:
Cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. ~Craig Claiborne
June 3, 2013:
I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them. ~Oscar Wilde
June 10, 2013:
You don’t order an egg-salad sandwich at a Chinese restaurant.
And you don’t order the chicken piccata at Jerry’s Deli. ~Jon Cryer
June 24, 2013:
I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen. ~Ted Allen
July 1, 2013:
Sacred cows make the best hamburger ~Mark Twain (disputed)
July 7, 2013:…he is a heavy eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm to his wit. ~Shakespeare
July 14, 2013:
Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening. ~P.G. Wodehouse
July 21, 2013:
Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy ~Anthony Powell
July 28, 2013:
Beware of people who don’t eat; in general they are envious, foolish, or nasty. Abstinence is an anti-social virtue. ~Grimod de la Reynière
August 4, 2013 (repeat of the first):
Life’s a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death! ~Auntie Mame
August 11, 2013:
Salt is born of the purest of parents: the sun and the sea. ~ Pythagoras
August 18, 2013:
Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today.
~
Sydney Smith
August 25, 2013:
There is a difference between dining and eating. Dining is an art. When you eat to get the most out of your meal, to please the palate, just as well as to satiate the appetite, that, my friend, is dining. ~Yuan Mei
September 1, 2013:
Yeah, where I come from, we eat our sushi cooked—medium rare.
And it’s made out of a cow. ~John Henson
September 8, 2013:
Those that say you can’t take it with you never saw our car packed for vacation.
~Author Unknown
September 15, 2013:
Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don’t deserve to eat garlic. ~ Anthony Bourdain
September 22, 2013:
Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French.
Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek.
Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good. ~Alice May Brock
September 29, 2013:
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
~Emile Zola
October 6, 2013:
Anyone who thinks they’re too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner ~Ruth Reichl
October 13, 2013:
Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations. ~MFK Fisher
October 20, 2013:
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off
the dessert cart. ~Erma Bombeck
October 27, 2013:
Bread, milk, and butter are of venerable antiquity.
They taste of the morning of the world ~Leigh Hunt
November 3, 2013:
I hadn’t the heart to touch my breakfast. I told Jeeves to drink it himself.
~P.G. Wodehouse
November 10, 2013:
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
~Yogi Berra
November 17, 2013:
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
November 24, 2013:
It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. ~Alistair Cooke
December 1, 2013:
Nothing says The Holidays like a cheese log. ~Ellen DeGeneres
December 8, 2013:
Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave.
No matter how careful you are, somebody’s going to get hurt. ~Alton Brown
December 15, 2013:
It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You’re on your own, Bernice. ~Erma Bombeck
December 22, 2013:
I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. If it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say. ~Bette Midler
December 29, 2013:
Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better
~Robert Redford
January 5, 2014:
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill
January 12, 2014:
Whoever receives friends and does not participate in the preparation of their meal does not deserve to have friends. ~ Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
January 19, 2014:
Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity. ~Frank Lloyd Wright
January 26, 2014:
You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients. ~Julia Child
February 2, 2014:
You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to? ~Nigella Lawson
February 9, 2014:
Age and glasses of wine should never be counted. ~Italian Saying
February 16, 2014:
It is difficult to argue with the belly since it has no ears. ~Cato the Elder
February 23, 2014:
I look at my crammed shelves and feast with artful reflection, for no meal is good that cannot be reflected upon with pleasure. ~ MFK Fisher
March 2, 2014:
All cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for. ~Andre Simon
March 9, 2014:
Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks. ~Marilyn Wann
March 16, 2014:
I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen,
but I’m not going to direct a movie. ~Julia Roberts
March 23, 2014:
Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. ~Jonathan Swift
March 30, 2014:
Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts. ~Charles Lamb
April 6, 2014:
Food – taken to support life. Wine – taken to enrichen life.
Food and Wine – taken to fulfill life. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
April 13, 2014:
If variety is the spice of life, then my life must be one of the spiciest you ever heard of.
A curry of a life. ~Paul Child
April 20, 2014:
Fish, to taste right, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine
~Polish Proverb
April 27, 2014:
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water,
is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight… ~M.F.K. Fisher
May 4, 2014:
Have you heard about this great new diet? No third helpings. ~Stanley Kubrick
May 11, 2014:
First we eat, then we do everything else. ~M.F.K. Fisher
May 18, 2014:
An apple is an excellent thing — until you have tried a peach. ~George du Maurier
May 25, 2014:
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. ~John Gunther
June 1, 2014:
If it has four legs and it’s not a table, eat it. ~Cantonese saying
June 8, 2014:
[it was] as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death… ~Abraham Lincoln
June 15, 2014:
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. ~Albert Einstein (disputed)
June 22, 2014:
Blood may be thicker than water, but it’s certainly not as thick as ketchup.
Nor does it go as well with French fries. ~Jarod Kintz
June 29, 2014:
Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don’t forget food.
You can go a week without laughing. ~Joss Whedon
July 6, 2014:
Love is like breakfast with Mildred. Who’s Mildred?
How the heck should I know? I don’t eat breakfast. ~Jarod Kintz
July 13, 2014:
I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.
~John Kennedy Toole
July 20, 2014:
Practice noticing when life is good. ~Emi Morimoto (quoting a friend)
July 27, 2014:
A Cornish hen in the hand is only enough for one person. ~Unknown
August 3, 2014:
A good breakfast is no substitute for a large dinner. ~Chinese Proverb
August 10, 2014:
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. ~François de la Rochefoucauld
August 17, 2014:
What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes,
he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow. ~A.A. Milne
August 24, 2014:
This salad would taste a lot better if it were a cupcake. ~Unknown
August 31, 2014:
I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries. ~Denis Leary
September 7, 2014:
Pre-heat the oven? Really? If I was the sort of person who planned ahead, I wouldn’t be eating this Totino’s Party Pizza in the first place. ~Adam Peterson
September 14, 2014:
In Seed Comes Fruit. ~Poi Dog Pondering
So… YEH, a shameless shoutout to my very favorite band. Friday’s concert at Ravinia was COLD, but magical, and I look forward to their new, next album come the spring.
September 21, 2014:
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach. ~Agatha Christie
September 28, 2014:
Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
~Julia Child
October 5, 2014:
I’m hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don’t know what. ~Jim Harrison
October 12, 2014:
A little lemon juice makes everything taste better. ~Virginia Sanborn Burleigh
October 19, 2014:
If a messy kitchen is a happy kitchen, then this kitchen is delirious. ~Anonymous
October 26, 2014:
I’ve got to get back to the kitchen. I’m making rabbit pâté, and you won’t believe how long it takes to debone the bunnies. ~Chef Bobby, A Place at the Table: A Novel
November 2, 2014:
Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. ~Anthony Bourdain
November 9, 2014:
My greatest strength is common sense. I’m really a standard brand – like Campbell’s tomato soup or Baker’s chocolate. ~Katharine Hepburn
November 16, 2014:
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria.
~David Auerbach
November 23, 2014:
A pâté is nothing more than French meat loaf that’s had a couple of cocktails.
~Carole Cutler
November 30, 2014:
A host at a table where a guest is obliged to ask, is a host dishonored. ~Baron Brisse
December 7, 2014:
Chef: Any cook who swears in French. ~Henry Beard and Roy McKie
December 14, 2014:
Food should be enjoyed rather than endured. ~Steve Hamilton
December 21, 2014:
You will never get out of pot or pan anything fundamentally better than what went into it. Cooking is not alchemy; there is no magic in the pot. ~Martha McCulloch-Williams
December 29, 2014:
Note: this is a repeat of a quote I first posted in 2010, but I think it more than bears repeating in these time and in this season. I hope we can all learn to live by it…
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. ~Tecumseh
January 4, 2015:
Finn sneered at the sugar packet he’d been playing with, and put it aside. Probably because it wasn’t certified and notarized as pure organic raw cane sugar harvested from sustainable fair trade fields and presented in a thrice-recycled packet after a virgin sacrifice. ~L.A. Witt, Starstruck (Editor: yes, the man was a jerk).
January 11, 2015:
Cooking is not about being the best or most perfect cook, but rather it is about sharing the table with family and friends. ~ Skye Gyngell
January 18, 2015:
Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded. ~Yogi Berra
January 25, 2015:
I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression. ~Maya Angelou
February 1, 2015:
All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt!
~Charles M. Schulz
February 8, 2015:
The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with
only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. ~Erma Bombeck
February 15, 2015:
I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work.
Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.
~Robert Farrar Capon
February 22, 2015:
Bacon is the candy of meat. ~Kevin Taggart
March 1, 2015:
Maria Portokalos: Nicko! Don’t play with the food! When I was your age,
we didn’t have food! ~My Big Fat Greek Wedding
March 8, 2015:
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups:
alcohol, caffiene, sugar and fat. ~Alex Levine
March 15, 2015:
Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. ~Ruth Reichl
March 22, 2015:
Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
March 29, 2015:
You can’t just eat good food. You’ve got to talk about it too. And you’ve got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food. ~Kurt Vonnegut
April 5, 2015:
The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.
~Robert Frost
April 12, 2015:
A poet’s hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
~W.H. Auden
April 19, 2015:
What I need… is a strong drink and a peer group. ~Douglas Adams
April 26, 2015:
The perils of duck hunting are great – especially for the duck. ~Walter Cronkite
May 3, 2015:
A good cook is not necessarily a good person with an even temper.
Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.
~X. Marcel Boulestin
May 10, 2015:
I’m up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis. ~Douglas Adams
May 17, 2015:
After a full belly all is poetry. ~Frank McCourt
May 24, 2015:
Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.
~Bert Greene
May 31, 2015:
Never eat anything you can’t lift. ~Miss Piggy
June 7, 2015:
Cakes are like books: there are new ones you want to read and
old favorites you want to reread. ~Ellen Rose
June 14, 2015:
Food is a great garnish for a glass of wine ~unknown
June 21, 2015:
No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.
~Mason Cooley
June 28, 2015:
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal. ~Voltaire
July 5, 2015:
We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.
~Anna Thomas
July 12, 2015:
I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
~Douglas Adams
July 19, 2015:
People who love to eat are always the best people.
~Julia Child
July 26, 2015:
Preserving was almost a mania with Mrs. Bergson….When there was nothing to preserve, she began to pickle. ~Willa Cather, ‘Death Comes for the Archbishop’
August 2, 2015:
Ethically, she couldn’t cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious. ~Thomm Quackenbush
August 9, 2015:
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people,
you might better stay home. ~James A Michener
August 16, 2015:
You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
~Anthony Bourdain
August 23, 2015:
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it. ~Aldous Huxley
August 30, 2015:
A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz. ~Humphrey Bogart
September 6, 2015:
She felt about her zester the way some women do about a pair of spiky red shoes–a frivolous splurge, good only for parties, but oh so lovely. ~Erica Bauermeister
September 13, 2015:
Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster. ~Ferran Adria
September 20, 2015:
If you obey all the rules, you will miss all the fun. ~Katherine Hepburn
September 27, 2015:
Dining with one’s friends and beloved family is certainly one of life’s primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal. ~Julia Child
October 4, 2015:
You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food. ~Paul Prudhomme
October 11, 2015:
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon,
or good people and noble ventures. ~M.F.K. Fisher
October 18, 2015:
While the dough is rising, life goes on. ~Peter Reinhart, Brother Juniper’s Bread Book
October 25, 2015:
I’m a little more reserved in person than people expect. But I warm up quickly, like leftovers. Meatloaf, anyone? ~Jarod Kintz
November 1, 2015:
Pre-heat the oven? Really? If I was the sort of person who planned ahead, I wouldn’t be eating this Totino’s Party Pizza in the first place. ~Adam Peterson
November 8, 2015:
Usually, one’s cooking is better than one thinks it is. ~Julia Child
November 15, 2015:
Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen,
the cow, and the cook. ~Ambrose Bierce
November 22, 2015:
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
~Henry David Thoreau
November 29, 2015:
Studies find the top 3 most stressful moments in people’s lives: death, divorce, and properly pronouncing “Worcestershire sauce.” ~Tony Hsieh
December 6, 2015:
Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can’t get it.
~P.G. Wodehouse
December 13, 2015:
And every day when I’ve been good, I get an orange after food.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
December 20, 2015:
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? ~Joyce Carol Oates
January 3, 2016:
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
January 10, 2016:
Age is not important unless you’re a cheese. ~Helen Hayes
January 17, 2016:
Always remember: If you’re alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who’s going to know? ~Julia Child
January 24, 2016:
A learning experience is one of those things that says, “You know that thing you just did? Don’t do that.” ~Douglas Adams
January 31, 2016:
When you come to a fork in the road, take it. ~Yogi Berra
February 7, 2016:
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. ~Helen Rowland
February 14, 2016:
Waffles are just awesome bread. ~John Green
February 21, 2016:
A pork chop in the kitchen is a pork chop; a pork chop in Proust is Proust. ~William Gaso
February 28, 2016:
I did not say that this meat was tough. I just said I didn’t see the horse that usually stands outside. ~W.C. Fields
March 6, 2016:
I never eat at a restaurant that’s over a hundred feet off the ground and won’t stand still. ~Calvin Trillin
March 13, 2016:
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~Charles Dickens
March 20, 2016:
I don’t eat Sloppy Joes. I eat Tidy Josephs. ~Jarod Kintz
March 27, 2016:
I don’t eat between meals. I don’t snack. Well, I do eat those little fish crackers. They’re fattening, but irresistible. ~Julia Child
April 3, 2016:
There’s no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap. ~Kevin James
April 10, 2016:
Cats are like mushrooms, only you’ll rarely ever hear me scream, “Get off my pizza!” to a pack of mushrooms. ~Jarod Kintz
April 17, 2016:
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry
a small snake. ~W. C. Fields
April 24, 2106:
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by
a good cut of meat. ~Fran Lebowitz
May 1, 2016:
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
~Lucille Ball
May 8, 2016:
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. ~Jack Kerouac
May 15, 2016:
I drink Champagne when I’m happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I’m not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise, I never touch it — unless I’m thirsty. ~Lily Bollinger
May 22, 2016:
Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me. ~Audrey Hepburn
May 29, 2016:
‘Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers
~William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
June 5, 2016:
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom. ~P.G. Wodehouse
June 12, 2016:
If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you might be a redneck. ~Jeff Foxworthy
June 19, 2016:
A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.
~M.F.K. Fisher
June 26, 2016:
Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first. ~Josh Billings
July 3, 2016:
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart. ~Cesar Chavez
July 10, 2016:
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it. ~W. C. Fields
July 17, 2016:
Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can’t put the two together. ~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
July 24, 2016:
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. ~Brian O’Driscoll
July 31, 2016:
New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin. ~Mark Twain
August 7, 2016:
A party without cake is just a meeting. ~Julia Child
August 14, 2016:
Nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should. ~Julia Child
August 21, 2016:
Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it ~Yogi Berra
August 28, 2016:
You are the butter to my bread, and the breath to my life. ~Julia Child
September 4, 2016:
In the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy.
More important, it is never too late to find out how to do it. ~Ruth Reichl
September 11, 2016:
I want you to look through my collection of haute cuisine cookery books – without, of course, creasing the pages – and find little things that we can do quickly on sticks. You know the sort of thing: tasty little morsels of the highest social calibre. ~Hyacinth Bucket
September 18, 2016:
Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time. ~T.S. Elliot
September 25, 2016:
Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time. ~Erma Bombeck
October 2, 2016:
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. ~Thomas Keller
October 9, 2016:
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. ~John Gunther
October 16, 2016:
When eating fruit, remember who planted the tree; when drinking water,
remember who dug the well. ~Vietnamese proverb
October 23, 2016:
Amor, Lux, Vertitas. Sic Itur ad Astra.
“Love, Light, Truth. Such is the path to the stars.”
~Pithy Latin quote found on the back of a rather nice Oregon red wine bottle.
October 30, 2016:
…the usual should be made unusual; extraordinariness should cloak the ordinary.
~MFK Fisher
November 6, 2016:
Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind,
must like, I think, to read about them. ~William Makepeace Thackeray
November 13, 2016:
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have. ~Anthony Bourdain
November 20, 2016:
I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas – fat, drugged, and completely out of it. ~Anthony Bourdain
November 27, 2016:
What you eat is like how you pray: Your Own Business. Not to be forced on others. Worship at Burger King or Chez Panisse, depending on your tastes, wallet and personal needs… Just don’t make me go there. ~Sheila Himmel
December 4, 2016:
Be simple. Be honest. Don’t overcook and don’t undercook, but it’s better to undercook than overcook. ~James Beard
December 11, 2016:
Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing. ~Walt Kelly
December 18, 2016:
I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once. ~Anthony Bourdain
December 26, 2016:
For each new morning with its light, for rest and shelter of the night, for health and food, for love and friends, for everything Thy goodness sends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
January 1, 2017:
An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins. ~Anthony Bourdain
January 8, 2017:
…no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing. ~Julia Child, My Life in France
January 15, 2017:
You don’t have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!
~Ina Garten
January 22, 2017:
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have. ~Anthony Bourdain
January 29, 2017:
Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter.
It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies – God damn it, you’ve got to be kind. ~Kurt Vonnegut
February 4, 2017:
Don’t lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don’t do it again. Ever. ~Anthony Bourdain
February 12, 2017:
Ms. Child is never bashful with butter.
~Phil Donahue
February 19, 2017:
It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption. ~Edward Bunyar
February 26, 2017:
A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.
~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
March 5, 2017:
Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe. ~Douglas Adams
March 12, 2017:
We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly. ~Anna Thomas
March 19, 2017:
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. ~Helen Rowland
March 26, 2017:
Cooking is not about being the best or most perfect cook, but rather it is about sharing the table with family and friends. ~Skye Gyngell
April 2, 2017:
Best way to get rid of kitchen odors? Eat out. ~Phyllis Diller
April 9, 2017:
Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through. ~Anthony Bourdain
April 16, 2017:
A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something Brussels sprouts never do. ~P. J. O’Rourke
April 23, 2017:
Delight in the ordinary is what makes life extraordinary. ~Asher to Jess in “Let’s Pretend We’re Married” by Edith Scott
April 30, 2017:
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. ~Jim Davis
May 21, 2017:
A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal. ~Pat Conroy
May 30, 2017:
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
~Mark Twain
July 2, 2017:
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. ~Winston Churchill, 1937
July 15, 2017:
Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate. ~Alan D. Wolfelt
September 10, 2017:
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this. ~Henry David Thoreau
September 24, 2017:
Guys, there’s only one thing I hate more than bloggers who start sentences with ‘guys’ – and it’s those mealy-mouth hipsters who crochet codpieces and their ye-olde-sideburned friends who pickle stuff and slaughter their own gluten-free goats. ~Jill Soloway
October 8, 2017:
I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression. ~Maya Angelou
November 12, 2017:
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
~Henry David Thoreau
January 6, 2018:
I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work.
Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm. ~Robert Farrar Capon
January 14, 2018:
We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly. ~Anna Thomas
March 14, 2018:
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. ~Stephen Hawking
May 6, 2018:
You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese. ~Anthony Bourdain
May 15, 2018:
Roasting is both nothing at all and absolutely everything.
~Marquis de Cussy, L’Art Culinaire
May 20, 2018:
Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination. ~James Beard
June 10, 2018:
I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we’re talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime associates, food, for me, has always been an adventure. ~Anthony Bourdain
June 17, 2018:
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying. ~Josh Billings
June 25, 2018:
There’s no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap. ~Kevin James
July 1, 2018:
If it looks right, it is right. ~Dorothy Draper
July 8, 2018:
I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it. ~Groucho Marx
July 15, 2018:
We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.
~Anna Thomas
July 22, 2018:
In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies. ~Desmond Tutu
August 19, 2018:
Guys, there’s only one thing I hate more than bloggers who start sentences with ‘guys’ – and it’s those mealy-mouth hipsters who crochet codpieces and their ye-olde-sideburned friends who pickle stuff and slaughter their own gluten-free goats. ~Jill Soloway
August 26, 2018:
This morning, with her, having coffee
~Johnny Cash (when asked his definition of paradise)
September 2, 2018:
Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food. ~Jimmy Fallon
September 13, 2018:
Obviously, if you don’t love life, you can’t enjoy an oyster. ~Eleanor Clark
September 23, 2018:
The man who has nothing to boast of but his ancestors is like a potato – the only good belonging to him is under ground. ~Sir Thomas Overbury
September 30, 2018:
If you really want to make a friend, go round someone’s house with a freshly baked loaf of sourdough bread! ~
October 17, 2018:
Here’s the only thing I know for sure: Chopped pineapple is incredible on hot dogs. Honest to God, I love pineapple on everything- I would probably even eat it off a cadaver’s hand- but toss it with a little chopped red onion and put it on a hot dog, and it’s bliss. There’s not a lot you can count on in this world, but pineapple? It’s solid. ~ Beth Harbison
October 21, 2018:
I’m brilliant at cooking my stepmother’s scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached. ~Ian Mckellen
November 3, 2018:
“Why does yours taste better than mine? Same ham, same mustard, same pickles.”
“Did you put your fingers in the jar and pull the pickle out of the juice or did you tilt the jar and grab the pickles by the exposed end/”
Bob stopped chewing.
Mario nodded. “That’s something else my nonna taught me. ‘Get the juice all over your fingers,’ she said. ‘Then when you cut the sandwich, the juice gets in the bread.
~Frank W. Butterfield, “Their Own Hidden Island”
November 20, 2018:
Wicked chickens lay deviled eggs.
December 1, 2018:
Age and glasses of wine should never be counted. ~Unknown
December 16, 2018:
Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ~Edna Ferber
March 25, 2019:
This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun! ~Julia Child
April 24, 2019:
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity. ~Elsa Maxwell
June 5, 2019:
Salad is never more appetizing than when served in a large wooden bowl.
~Dorothy Draper
July 10, 2019:
Wine is sunlight, held together by water. ~Galileo
September 3, 2019:
In the last analysis, a pickle is a cucumber with experience.
~Irena Chalmers
October 2, 2019:
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. ~H.L. Mencken
November 21, 2019:
Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know. ~Groucho Marx
December 12, 2019:
The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye. ~Douglas Adams
February 4, 2020:
“Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.”
~Ina Garten
February 20, 2020:
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~Buddha
March 8, 2020:
I’ve done bad things with relish, and good things with pickles. ~John S. Hall
March 25, 2020:
I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other.
~Aristotle Onassis
April 9, 2020:
For dinner parties, I love making an easy cioppino using shrimp, mussels, clams, and a hearty fish that won’t fall apart easily. ~Meghan Markle
May 1, 2020:
Tacos are like what the voices of a hundred angels singing Bob Dylan while sitting on rainbows and playing banjos would taste like if that sound were edible. ~Isabel Quintero
June 21, 2020:
Oh, I don’t need sleep. I just went to my hotel room and had a cold hot dog and a vodka on the rocks. ~Betty White
July 4, 2020:
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
~Maya Angelou
July 25, 2020:
If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side,
you might be a redneck. ~Jeff Foxworthy
August 25, 2020:
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is out-grossing my films.
~Paul Newman
November 8, 2020:
“What’s that supposed to mean? A wolf’s head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf?” ~Eoin Colfer, The Lost Colony
November 17, 2020:
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ~Voltaire
December 4, 2020:
Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name. ~Erma Bombeck
December 28, 2020:
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
March 24, 2021:
A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity;
it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
~Yotam Ottolenghi
May 9, 2021:
Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.
~Hedy Lamarr
May 25, 2021:
The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to folk music to on and on and on and on and putting them all in this big pot and mixing up a new gumbo. ~Robbie Robertson
July 28, 2021:
Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination. ~James Beard
November 8, 2021:
If there’s cheesecake in the house, I’ll have some. ~Kelly Ripa
January 6, 2022:
[upon learning Ian is a vegetarian]
What do you mean, you don’t eat no meat? [the entire room stops, in shock] …
That’s okay. I make lamb. ~Aunt Voula, My Big Fat Greek Wedding
February 3, 2022:
What does cheese say when it looks in the mirror? “HALLOUMI!”
March 28, 2022:
She noticed a monger’s window where, on a bed of ice, a wonderful scene was worked in fish. A skiff made of flounder fillets rode waves of shrimp and blue-black mussels. A whole salmon was a lighthouse, shot out rays of glittering mackerel. All framed by a border of crab claws. “She” ~Annie Proulx
April 11, 2022:
This wasn’t just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. ~Dorothy Parker
May 18, 2022:
I’m really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly – until I decide not to. And then I’ll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I’m following a recipe, I follow it exactly. ~Ina Garten
June 9, 2022:
Life is too short to suffer anybody’s meanness, which is what you can learn eating shrimp with store-bought coleslaw, if you look it straight in the face. ~Valerie Hobbs
September 1, 2022:
Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me. ~Audrey Hepburn
October 12, 2022:
You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
~Anthony Bourdain
November 14, 2022:
Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know. ~Groucho Marx
January 12, 2023:
Proud barbecue saucier for 47+ years! ~Me
February 14, 2023:
Anyway, like I was sayin’, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey’s uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. ~Bubba Blue in Forrest Gump
May 2, 2023:
I travel the world, and I’m happy to say that America is still the great melting pot – maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.
~Philip Glass
July 11, 2023:
Unless you are a pizza, the answer is yes, I can live without you. ~Bill Murray.
August 9, 2023:
Life was just a tire swing—blackberry pickin’, eatin’ fried chicken. ~Jimmy Buffett
September 18, 2023:
Do good. Be nice. Order pizza. Repeat. ~Anonymous
January 19, 2024:
Soup is like a warm blanket on a cold winter’s day. ~Unknown
February 13, 2024:
The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of chips… you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them. ~Sid Waddell
March 14, 2024:
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
April 17, 2024:
A party without cake is just a meeting. ~Julia Child
May 15, 2024:
«Qu’ils mangent de la brioche (Let them eat cake)» ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions