#cuisine

Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman." [Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson's cooking.] ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#cooking #cuisine #food #limitations #scotch

A culinary triumph: the ingenious use of food as an offensive weapon. ↗

— James Hamilton-Paterson

#food

Fine food is poison. It can be as bitter as antimony and bitter almonds and as repulsive as swallowing live toads. Like the poison the emperor took every day to stop himself being poisoned, fine food must be taken daily until the system becomes immune to its ravages and the taste buds beaten and abused to the point where they not only accept but savour every vile concoction under the sun. ↗

— Lisa St Aubin de Terán

#gourmand #gourmet #food

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip. ↗

— John Cleese

#contribution #cuisine #english #world

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dogs #humour #korean-cuisine #north-korea #pyongyang

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking. ↗

— Julia Child

#cooking #cuisine #diet #fancy #got

I am a serious food lover and Peruvian cuisine is one of the best in the world. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#best #cuisine #food #i #i am

My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family. ↗

— Jourdan Dunn

#caribbean #cooking #cuisine #family #favourite

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#capability #cuisine #fully #good #good things

All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level. ↗

— Charlie Trotter

#could #cuisine #dining #elements #equal