Tag Archive | quotes
Cooking Thought: September 7th 2012
There are no corn chip bushes or Cherrios vines on a farm, and spaghetti trees have yet to be discovered. Harvey Blatt
Cooking Thought: August 31st 2012
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
Cooking Thought: August 30th 2012
Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want. ~Gael Greene
Cooking Thought: August 29th 2012
Did you ever stop to taste a carrot? Not just eat it, but taste it? You can’t taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie. ~Terri Guillemets
Cooking Thought for August 28th 2012
Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you! ~Tommy Smothers
Cooking Thought: August 27th 2012
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~Doug Larson
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I eat so poorly during the stressful part of my day I need to have a vegetable orgy for dinner just to make up for it. ~Carrie Latet
Cooking Thought: August 25th 2012
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. ~Calvin Trillin
Cooking Thought for August 22nd 2012
If we’re not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn’t settle for junk food. ~Sally Edwards
Cooking Thought for August 19th 2012
Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen? Like Royalty, she goes her way, Laying foundations every day, Though not for Public Buildings, yet For Custard, Cake and Omelette…. No wonder, Child, we prize the Hen, Whose Egg is Mightier than the Pen. ~Oliver Herford, “The Hen”
Cooking Thought: August 16th 2012
“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans … are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.” ― Anthony Bourdain
Cooking Thought: August 15th 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 Happy Birthday Julia!!
Cooking Thought: August 9th 2012
If we’re not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn’t settle for junk food. -Sally Edwards
Cooking Thought: August 8th 2012
“The quality of food is in inverse proportion to the altitude of the dining room, with airplanes the extreme example.” -Bryan Miller
Cooking Thought: August 6th 2012
“….the egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float….are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.” -Mark Kurlansky
Cooking Thought: August 4th 2012
“I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.” -Rita Rudner
Cooking Thought: August 3rd 2012
“Love and sausage are alike. Can never have enough of either.” – Trixie Koontz
Cooking Thought: August 2nd 2012
“Any food that requires enhancing by the use of chemical substances should in no way be considered a food.” ― John H. Tobe
Cooking Thought: August 1st 2012
“We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine. If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.” ― Roman Payne
Cooking Thought: July 31st 2012
“I always tell my kids to cut a sandwich in half right when you get it, and the first thought you should have is somebody else. You only ever need half a burger.” ― Louis C.K.
Cooking Thought: July 30th 2012
“I don’t believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. When one’s hostess starts in with self-deprecations such as “Oh, I don’t know how to cook…,” or “Poor little me…,” or “This may taste awful…,” it is so dreadful to have to reassure her that everything is delicious […]
July 28th 2012
“I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I’m really anal about it, actually.” -Cameron Diaz
Cooking Thought: July 25th 2012
“Indigenous foods die when no one learns to cook them.” ― Jean Zimmerman
Cooking Thought for July 22nd 2012
“Happy and successful cooking doesn’t rely only on know-how; it comes from the heart, makes great demands on the palate and needs enthusiasm and a deep love of food to bring it to life.” ~ Georges Blanc
Cooking Thought: July 21st 2012
“I wondered what you’d have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?” ― Robin McKinley, Sunshine
Cooking Thought: July 19th 2012
“A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into; the other functions and faculties may be more godlike, but in point of time they come afterwards. A man dies and is buried, and all his words and actions are forgotten, but the food he has eaten lives after him in the sound or […]
Cooking Thought: July 18th 2012
“There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?” ― Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun
Cooking Thought: July 17th 2012
“The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.” ― James Beard
Cooking Thought: July 9th 2012
“Good cooking does not depend on whether the dish is large or small, expensive or economical. If one has the art, then a piece of celery or salted cabbage can be made into a marvelous delicacy; whereas if one has not the art, not all the greatest delicacies and rarities of land, sea or sky are of […]
Cooking Thought: July 2nd 2012
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ~Voltaire
Cooking Thought: July 1st 2012
“My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.” ~ Nora Ephron
Cooking Thought: June 28th 2012
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. Samuel Pepys
Cooking Thought: June 27th 2012
“What I go for in my cooking is sinful, bold and real.” -Emeril Lagasse
Cooking Thought: June 26th 2012
“If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?” -Pink Floyd
Cooking Thought: June 25th 2012
“Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.” -Benjamin Franklin
Cooking Thought: June 24th 2012
What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what’s the world coming to, eh? -Dorothy Sayers
Cooking Thought: June 23rd 2012
Grilling is like sunbathing. Everyone knows it is bad for you but no one ever stops doing it.-Laurie Colwin
Cooking Thought: June 21st 2012
“Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per second.” -Johnny Hart
Cooking Thought: June 20th 2012
“An apple is an excellent thing — until you have tried a peach.” -George du Maurier Happy National Peaches and Cream Day!
Cooking Thought: June 19th 2012
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
Cooking Thought: June 18th 2012
A vegetarian is a person who won’t eat anything that can have children. ~David Brenner
Cooking Thought: June 15th 2012
Perfectly prepared lobster are ”not unlike hot curds, juicy and tender, and sweet as scorched honey from ocean depths. -Kenneth Robert Happy National Lobster Day!
Cooking Thought: June 13th 2012
“Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.” -Garrison Keillor
Cooking Thoughts: June 14th 2012
“The first zucchini I ever saw I killed it with a hoe.” -John Gould, ‘Monstrous Depravity’ 1963.
