John Evelyn Quotes

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt.

It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.

In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal.

Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable

Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.' And at our house we were force-fed it for free. Just another irony of life.

'Fine casual' means taking the cultural priorities that fine dining, at its best, believes in.

Eataly is the greatest - it's like food galore there. They have all of these little stations, like a pasta area and a pizza area. And they have the best gelato.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

I think fine dining should be part of the community where it is, more than just for the people who are going to make a special occasion.

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

If a D.C. event doesn't have crab cakes, it's low-rent and you need to flee.

My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, 'What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?'

Here's the thing, I've been cooking more and more and I'm pretty good; the problem is I can only go out to restaurants that cook better than I do, therefore, it's expensive.

I love really good food and I don't ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food.

New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.

When I am up in Paris then the restaurant which has remained my favourite for the past decade is Guy Savoy. The menu is huge, sophisticated and very creative but I keep to simple choices.

A lot of country pubs will receive Michelin stars.

The best food I've had was actually in catering at 'Single Ladies.' It's insane. I can't live in Atlanta. In fact, even if I'm offered, I'm not sure I could come back for another six months, because I'll just be fat.

I've had the privilege of having a lot of amazing people cook for me.

I once went to Alba, Italy, during their white truffle festival, and I was like, 'Just leave me here!'

I do love a good salad, so Sweetgreen has been great. But my favorite Cambridge restaurant overall is Darwin's - that's the greatest restaurant of all time.

I see City Perch as a destination restaurant.

Chris Corso became a friend several years ago, I've always loved his restaurants.