Quotes About French Food

“First need in the reform of hospital management? That’s easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.” –Martin H. Fischer

“Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.” Ambrose Bierce

“The French are not rude. They just happen to hate you. But that is no reason to bypass this beautiful country, whose master chefs have a well-deserved worldwide reputation for trying to trick people into eating snails. Nobody is sure how this got started. Probably a couple of French master chefs were standing around one day, and they found a snail, and one of them said: ‘I bet that if we called this something like `escargot,’ tourists would eat it.’ Then they had hearty laugh, because ‘escargot’ is the French word for ‘fat crawling bag of phlegm.’” –Dave Barry

“Food: Part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories.” –Beverley Baxter

“The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people’s feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.” –P.J. O’Rourke

“If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup.” –Louis Diat

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.” –John Keats

“Ten cooks’ shops! …and all within three minutes’ driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world …had said—Come, let us all go live at Paris: the French love good eating—they are all gourmands—we shall rank high.” –Laurence Sterne

“The French peasant cuisine is at the basis of the culinary art. By this I mean it is composed of honest elements that la grand cuisine only embellishes.” –Alexandre Dumaine