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[janeer]

I revere Charles Dickens. Of his extensive dialogue about food in his books, my favorites are from A Christmas Carol:

"Hallo! A great deal of steam!The pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house, and a pastry cook's next to each other, with a laundress's next door to that! That was the pudding."

And declaring it "a wonderful pudding--not at all a small pudding for such a large family" to Mrs. Cratchet, who said, "I do confess I had my doubts about the quantity of flour."


And then there was my inimatable (a nickname for Dickens himself) father, who once said at the Empress Room, a very fancy Chinese restaurant on the top of the Hyatt, "Gimme one of them Chinese margaritas" to the very stuffy Chinese waiter.

[Beebs]

"Life is short. Eat dessert first."

Don't know who to attribute this quote to, but it's on my coaster at my desk!

[sheepish]

I'm fond of the musings of Brillat-Savarin. In particular,

"Dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with one eye"

[Kouign Aman]

"If life hands you melons, you are probably dyslexic."

[_john]

Ingredients have no borders.

Hiroyuki Sakai

[Panaderia Canadiense]

There's a traditional Ambato saying that I quite like, which translates as:

"Chocolate without cheese is love without kisses" (Chocolate sin queso es amor sin besos)

[andiesenji]

"Tea can have a piece of fruit hanging on the side of the cup. If I have fruit hanging from the side of glass, there should be rum in it." Amy Vansant


"Champagne should be cold, dry and, hopefully, free."
- Christian Pol Roger

Edited by andiesenji, 23 August 2011 - 03:08 PM.

[haresfur]

A friend of my parents said:

"I don't make love to 14 year old girls and I don't drink beaujolais nouveau."

- Bruce McDonald

[threestars]

I love this one:

"Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat." - Jim Davis

[David Ross]

"I'm not a heavy eater. I'm just heavy, and I eat."
Alfred Hitchcock

[andiesenji]

Quote from a Maxine comic:

"I get my glow from a bottle. It says Zinfandel!"

[Melissa]

My favorite..

“If your guests are afraid of butter, just use cream.”
― Julia Child

Edited by Melissa, 20 March 2012 - 09:18 AM.

[SylviaLovegren]

My fave is another of Douglas Adams' -

After that, I'm quite fond of an unattributed quote: "Any self-respecting cat will bury a ripe guava."

Wow, is that true! My husband just bought a small case of guavas and the first thing the strikes one when walking into our house is "clean that catbox, now!" I had no idea.

P.S. We have no pets.

Edited by SylviaLovegren, 21 March 2012 - 09:10 AM.

[Panaderia Canadiense]

Alongside ripe and freshly split Durian, I think Guava are perhaps in the running for "world's tastiest and at the same time foulest smelling fruit."

[David Ross]

"Give her sunshine, and plenty of butter and cream."
Wuthering Heights, 1939

[David Ross]

"I would like to put the whole of natural history on the spit, in stews, in
fricassees, in court-bouillon, in grills,..... "

Jean Camille Fulbert-Dumonteil, 1831-1912

[daveb]

1st post - not as intellectual as some but a long time favorite.

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"
"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"
"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
"It's the same thing," he said.

Regards,

Dave

[Andreas]

Sokrates seems to have coined this one originally, just the other (wrong ;-)) way 'round. I don't know who fixed it:

Thou shouldst live to eat; not eat to live.

[SylviaLovegren]

1st post - not as intellectual as some but a long time favorite.

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"
"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"
"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
"It's the same thing," he said.

Regards,

Dave

One of the best...and truest. :)

[Heartsurgeon]

watch this:

Monty Python - Mr Creosote

the quote is "its only a wafer thin mint.." around the 4:10 mark.

[Heartsurgeon]

Alternatively:

"Champagne, in victory we deserve it, in defeat we need it"
W. Churchill

[barolo]

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relatives. Oscar Wilde

There is no love sincerer than the love of food. George Bernard Shaw

[barolo]

Alternatively:

"Champagne, in victory we deserve it, in defeat we need it"
W. Churchill

I've seen that attributed to Napoleon

My favourite Champagne quote:

"My only regret is that I did not drink more Champagne." Lord Maynard Keynes, on his deathbed

One more food quote:

"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour." Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

OK this is the last one:

"Eggs, I have found, have much in common with small boys. If they are hurried, overheated, or overbeaten in the beginning, they tend to turn on you, and no amount of future love and concern can right the wrong." Irene Chalmers, The Confident Cook

Edited by barolo, 28 March 2012 - 07:14 PM.

[Blues_Cookin]

I love this thread

[Panaderia Canadiense]

I'm not sure whether it's been mentioned upthread, but:

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.
-normally attributed to Tom Waits

[andiesenji]

These from the incomparable Julia Child.


How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like Kleenex?

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken. Bon appétit.

[David Ross]

"My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite--smoking cigars and
also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be, during all meals and
in the intervals between them."

Sir Winston Churchill

[Panaderia Canadiense]

Knowlege is to say that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

- My friend Steve, with permission.

[rotuts]

"A sandwich without meat isn't a sandwich. It's just lonely bread"

Dan Stark Ep 116 "The Good Guys"

[barolo]

“You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.” William S. Burroughs