3,214 Quotes About Food


  • Author Top Chef Staff
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    I thought we were going to take a 20-mule team out to the Grand Canyon and get a Bunsen burner and a bow and arrow, and whatever you can catch you cook. And it’s gotta be gourmet and it better look good.

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  • Author Thomas Keller
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    When we eat together, when we set out to do so deliberately, life is better, no matter what your circumstances.

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  • Author Robert B. Parker
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    After a while I got hungry and went to the kitchen. There was nothing to eat. I drank another beer and looked again, and found half a loaf of whole wheat bread behind the beer in the back of the refrigerator...

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  • Author Jan Neruda
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    I’ve supped on potatoes and groats and am waiting to be sick. How about you?I supped like the Lord in Heaven.’and what does the Lord in Heaven have for supper?’Nothing.

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  • Author James Howard Kunstler
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    The three of us ate a fine supper of grilled trout with sorrel cream sauce, and red potatoes out of Britney's old garden behind the ruins of the Watling place, and watercress sautéed in butter for hardly a moment with a dash of vinegar, and cream custard with wild blackberries for dessert.

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  • Author Florence Chevalier
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    Quand ma crêpe au froment arrive sur la table, je la dévore aussitôt. Je l'ai commandée au caramel au beurre salé. Il paraît que beaucoup de personnes prennent plutôt du beurre sans sel, mais franchement, ils ne savent pas ce qu'ils ratent.

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