Epicurean Pleasures Quotes

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too.

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

I have had, in my time, memorable meals of scrambled eggs with fresh truffles, scrambled eggs with caviar and other glamorous things, but to me, there are few things as magnificent as scrambled eggs, pure and simple, perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned.

[Bachelors'] approach to gastronomy is basically sexual, since few of them under seventy-nine will bother to produce a good meal unless it is for a pretty woman.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

I've always been one of those people who romanticized cooking, but the few attempts I'd made in my life resulted in friends' contorted faces as they desperately tried to say something nice about the "dish" they were eating.

The bread and the pastry, the cheeses and wine, and the sugar go into the Supper of the lamb because we do. It is our love that brings the city home. It is I grant you, an incautious and extravagant hope. But only outlandish hopes can make themselves at home.

A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.

If you can't eat incredible food, then what's the point?

We don't eat to live, we live to eat because that's a part of the creativity of the day.

A lot of it revolves around food with me because a lot of my life does in a way.

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.

The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.