Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes

Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, bartrels of oysters, re-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.

Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other dainties; bring us a whole sheep, serve a goat and forty-year old mead! And plenty of vodka, not vodka with all sorts of fancies, not with raisins and flavorings, but pure foaming vodka, that hisses and bubbles like mad.

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

I'm a pretty decent cook. I like to grill. I have a smoker that I love. I love me some steak. And I'll make a huge salad with a ton of vegetables.

I did enjoy cooking, I still do really enjoy cooking - I make a nice salmon dish, and I'm a huge meat freak, so I love to bang a few steaks on the grill or pasta. Anything Italian, really.

I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.

The man who looks at an animal and sees beauty is a man who has eaten well.

I can make a mean Kachchi Biryani, and sometimes I bake it, too.

A sandwich needn't be loaded with bacon or ham to make it a serious feast.

Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

‎"To Parlin's mind, nothing showed affection like a hunk of something dead and bleeding on the table.

Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.

My life is a tsunami of inspirations. Number one is that I really do just love my BBQ. I mean it's the sustenance of mankind. You know, the animal rights of people, if they had their way, 99% of the human race would parish because we sustain ourselves with dead stuff on the grill.

Hunger is the best seasoning.

The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.

The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.

As a comforter, philosophy cannot compete with a good dinner.

The true Amphitryon is the Amphitryon where we dine.

There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here.

Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

Enough is as good as a feast.

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.

Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.