Julia Child
Chef, Author, Television Personality
"It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it."
Culinary quotes
Culinary
52 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Julia Child
Chef, Author, Television Personality
"Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn."
Thomas Keller
Chef, Restaurateur
"I have no formal culinary training, right."
Truman Capote
Author, Journalist
"Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way."
George Carlin
Comedian, Actor
"And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats."
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"Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs."
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"Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?"
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"Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?"
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"On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it."
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"Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything."
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"Appetite, a universal wolf."
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"Luncheon: as much food as one's hand can hold."
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"Food doesn't exist, but can only be invented. And reinvented."
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"The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament."
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