Food For Thought

My friend Pat, who really knows how to cook, was kind enough to find and share the following food tidbits:

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.~Frederic Raphael

Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and as sweet as love.~Turkish Proverb

As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.~Joan Gussow

I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.~ James Beard

Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king.~Louis Bromfield

Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn.~Garrison Keillor

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you! ~Tommy Smothers

Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage. Lettuce pray.~Author Unknown

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.~Luciano Pavarotti

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

The belly rules the mind.~Spanish Proverb

In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait.~José Simons

A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat.~Old New York Proverb

This is every cook's opinion -
no savory dish without an onion,
but lest your kissing should be spoiled
your onions must be fully boiled.~Jonathan Swift

Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy.~Author Unknown

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.~Alfred E. Newman

If God had intended us to follow recipes,
He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.~Linda Henley

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.~Robert Frost

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. ~James Beard

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.~Charles Kuralt

Kissing don't last; cookery do!~George Meredith

Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want.~Gael Greene

If you ate pasta and antipasto, would you still be hungry?~Author Unknown

He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating oysters.~James I

Avoid fruit and nuts. You are what you eat.~Jim Davis

All sorrows are less with bread.~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight...

Breadbaking is one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.~M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.~Harriet van Horne

Soup is liquid comfort.~Author Unknown

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.~Julia Child

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.~Doug Larson

It may be the way the cookie crumbles on Madison Avenue, but in Hong Kong it's the way the egg rolls.~Robert Orben (1927--) American humorist.

Broken cookies don't have calories. ~Unknown

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.~Unknown

He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]~Eike von Repkow

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people ~Orson Welles

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking
you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude. ~Julia Child

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes,
he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow. ~ A. A. Milne

My tongue is smiling.~ Abigail Trillin

Laughter is brightest where food is best. ~ Irish Proverb

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. ~Elsa Schiaparelli

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well,
if one has not dined well.~ Virginia Woolf

Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes.
It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt. ~ Judith Olney

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

Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat.
If he knew, he'd be a chef. ~Andy Rooney

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.~ Sophia Loren

Can it be a mistake that STRESSED is DESSERTS spelled backwards ??"

Ham and eggs: a day's work for a hen; a lifetime commitment for a pig.

How can a nation be great if its bread tastes like kleenex? Julia Child

A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz.~ Humphrey Bogart

Inside me there's a thin person struggling to get out,
but thankfully, I can usually shut the fool up with cookies and cake.

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

The stomach is like packing a suit case, fill it with the essentials (meat, potatoes, bread) and leave the incidentals (vegetables)at home.~Wag