The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.
Cooks - Cooking Quotes
Martha Stewart, cooking on television with Julia Child, couldn’t stop correcting Julia’s work. She quietly picked, picked, picked away at this and that, and Julia Child, in her inimitable, breezy way, just let the criticisms float by. Julia Child, for all the years of complaints about her technique, has never failed to express her firm […]
They say that the best way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, which just goes to show they’re as confused about anatomy as they gen’rally are about everything else, unless they’re talking about instructions on how to stab him, in which case a better way is up and under the ribcage. Anyway, we […]
Great traditions of cookery, as I have pointed out, have their origins in scarcity. Any idiot can make a good meal out of prime steak, but when your raw material is cow hooves and sheep lips, well, that’s when you really learn cookery. And the art of translation, of course, since many people will put […]
The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and warble while chewing pressed beef smeared with diabolical mustard. Nobody can exult aloud while ungluing from his teeth a quivering tapioca pudding.
At the root of many a woman’s failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
In China it’s taken as a compliment if the tablecloth immediately surrounding your place is, by the end of a meal, a site of major spillage: ill-aimed rice, gouts of soy sauce, twigs from your bird’s-nest-soup, or whatever. At least, this is what I was once told by a courteous Chinese guide, who might just […]
Everybody loves a backyard barbecue. For some reason, food just seems to taste better when it has been cooked outdoors, where flies can lay eggs on it.
I don’t like gourmet cooking or “this” cooking or “that” cooking. I like _good_ cooking.
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.
