Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.
Cooks - Cooking Quotes
God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.
In China it’s taken as a compliment if the tablecloth immediately surrounding your place is, by the end of a meal, a site of major spillage: ill-aimed rice, gouts of soy sauce, twigs from your bird’s-nest-soup, or whatever. At least, this is what I was once told by a courteous Chinese guide, who might just […]
Everybody loves a backyard barbecue. For some reason, food just seems to taste better when it has been cooked outdoors, where flies can lay eggs on it.
I don’t like gourmet cooking or “this” cooking or “that” cooking. I like _good_ cooking.
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.
I believe that if I ever had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there was enough tarragon around.
Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.
They say that the best way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, which just goes to show they’re as confused about anatomy as they gen’rally are about everything else, unless they’re talking about instructions on how to stab him, in which case a better way is up and under the ribcage. Anyway, we […]
Great traditions of cookery, as I have pointed out, have their origins in scarcity. Any idiot can make a good meal out of prime steak, but when your raw material is cow hooves and sheep lips, well, that’s when you really learn cookery. And the art of translation, of course, since many people will put […]
