He’d noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: It fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination – but at the end of the day they’d settle quite happily for egg and chips, if it was […]
Cooks - Cooking Quotes
Boil stones in butter, and you may sip the broth.
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.
I believe that if I ever had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there was enough tarragon around.
Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.
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.
