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All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
John Gunther
Cauliflower is cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain
Conversation is the enemy of food and good wine.
Alfred Hitchcock
Cooking is a way of giving and making yourself desirable.
Michel Bourdin
Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.
Clement Freud
Cheese - milk's leap towards immortality.
Clifton Fadiman
Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.
Claudia Roden
Chanpagne: In victory you deserve it. in defeat you need it.
Napoleon
We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience and live without heart;
We may live without friends;
We may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic
believer in will's freedom after it.
Aldous Huxley
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
Joseph Campbell
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music
out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.
John Keats
The best number for a dinner-party is two: myself and a damn good
head waiter.
Nubar Gulbenkian
Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.
Henry James
At a dinner-party one should eat wisely but not too well, and
talk well but not too wisely.
W. Somerset Maugham
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
Sheila Graham
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight
pleasure.
Michel de Montaigne
Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
Shirley Conran
Without a liqueur and a coffee the best of meals ends as tamely
as a pretty mermaid.
H. Warner Allen
A cocktail is to a glass of wine as rape is to love.
Paul Claudel
Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united
and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners.
Andre Simon
Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.
Ambrose Bierce
A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young
an' believing.
Tennessee Williams
The trouble with the world is everybody in it is three drinks
behind.
Humphrey Bogart
Salt is white and pure - there is something holy in salt.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the
permanent.
John Arlott
Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Wine is the milk of the old, the balm of adults, and the vehicle
of the gourmand.
Grimod de la Reyniere
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes
the man.
Sinclair Lewis
Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.
Fran Lebowitz
The bagel, an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis.
Beatrice Freeman
Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.
Plato
Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those
who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.
Fran Lebowitz
Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.
Aldous Huxley
She was so wild that when she made French toast she got her tongue
caught in the toaster.
Rodney Dangerfield
There is no such thing as a little garlic.
Arthur Baer
The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated
sunbeams.
Thomas Peacock
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
Lewis Carroll
All the ingenious men and all the scientific men in the world
could never invent anything so curious and so ridiculous as a
lobster.
Charles Kingsley
Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.
Robert Benchley
Meat is a status dish in which the sizzle counts for more than
the nutritional worth.
Magnus Pyke
It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.
Waverly Root
Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg,
a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed
to nudity.
Waverly Root
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded
- dead.
Woody Allen
His idea of heaven is eating pate de fois gras to the sound of
trumpets.
Sydney Smith
Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
Sophia Loren
One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.
George Ade
On strawberries: doubtless God could have made a better berry,
but doubtless God never did.
William Butler
Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage and venerable liquid, thou female
tongue-running cordial, in whose glorious insipidity I owe the
happiest moments of my life - let me fall prostrate.
Colley Cibber
Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.
Alexander Pope
All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous,
the egg no less than the truffle.
Sybille Bedford
Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and
taste, not exact measurements.
X. Marcel Boulestin
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the
other is substance.
E.V. Lucas
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw
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