Gastronomic Delight Quotes

The first posh meal out I had was on my 10th birthday.

Hunger is the best seasoning.

It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during.

People are like, 'Was it fun? Did you eat lots of cake?'

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

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.

Steak and sex, my favorite pair. I get them both very rare.

My life changed when I was able to not only get seated in nice restaurants, I was given free appetizers. That was like, "Oh, my God, I've arrived".

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

Cheesecake Factory is great. It should have Michelin stars.

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories. I cannot conceive of cooking for friends or family, under reasonable conditions, as being a chore.

The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but the intellect's ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely superfluous (poetry, handbags and haute cuisine)? So removed from daily life was the whole experience that when all was rotten to the core, a fine dinner could revive the spirits. If and when I had twenty dollars left to my name, I was going to invest it right here in an elegant hour that couldn't be hocked.

Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.

I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.

Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.

Cooking done with care is an act of love.

People who have come to appreciate well-sourced and well-cooked food refuse to pay too much for food that they wouldn't want to pay anything for.

If your idea of a 7 course meal is a bucket of KFC and a sixpack, you might be a redneck.

What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?

Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.

Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.