Cooking Quotes

“A crier of green sauce.”

“God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.”

“The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.”

“Poure faire un civet, prenez un lièvre.”

“Velocius (or citius) quam asparagi coquantur.”

“He ruleth all the roste
With bragging and with boste.”

“Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks.”

“Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.”

“I never strove to rule the roast,
She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast.”

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“Of herbs, and other country messes,
Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.”

“Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl,
And, half-suspected, animate the whole.”

“Ever a glutton, at another's cost,
But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.”

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“A cook should double one sense have: for he
Should taster for himself and master be.”

“Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine,
And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.”

“Every investigation which is guided by principles of nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.”

“No one here will be surprised to hear me say that the Promethean fire which first raised humanity above the animal was the cooking fire.”

“And nearer as they came, a genial savour
Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus,
Things which in hungry mortals' eyes find favour.”

“Cooking is revelation and creation; and a woman can find special satisfaction in a successful cake or a flaky pastry, for not every one can do it: one must have the gift.”