90 Quotes About Culinary
- Author Ambrose Bierce
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DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.
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- Author Ambrose Bierce
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EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.
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- Author Ambrose Bierce
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Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.
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- Author Ben Bradlee
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The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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- Author Henry Beard
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Chef: Any cook who swears in French.
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- Author Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.
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- Author Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste.
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- Author Marian Burros
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This has got to be the most expensive food ever laminated.
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- Author Monica Baldwin
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The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament.
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