kitchen quotes

La volaille est pour la cuisine ce qu'est la toile pour les peintres. Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is to the painter.

-Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  Physiologie du gou"  t, pt.1, ch.6, section 34 (translated by Anne Drayton,1970).

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

- Charles Bukowski
  Tales of Ordinary Madness,'Too Sensitive'.

   The view of history that we get through the kitchen window is a more gentle view, not of war and politics, but of familyand communityand sharing.

-Julia McWilliams Child
  On studying cookbooks dating back to the1400s in the Library of Congress. In Memory and Imagination, PBS  TV, 15  Aug. Chinese poet and civil servant about whom very little is known. He  wrote  a  series  of  three  poems  on  his  separation  from  his wife, the result of a posting to Beijing.

I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes. But I laugh And eat well, And grow strong.

- (James Mercer) Langston Hughes
  'I, Too', in Survey Graphic, Mar.

Tomorrow I'll sit at the table When company comes Nobody'll dare Say to me, 'Eat in the kitchen' Then.

- (James Mercer) Langston Hughes
  'I, Too', in Survey Graphic, Mar.

They saya building isgood architecture if it works.Of course, this is poppycock. All buildings work† You expect anyarchitect, a graduate of Harvard or not, to be able to put the kitchen in the right place.

- Philip Cortelyou Johnson
  'The Seven Crutches of  Architecture', informal talk to students, School of  Architectural Design, Harvard University, 7 Dec. Published in Perspecta 3 (1955).

Durch schlechte K o« chinnendurch den vollkommenen Mangel anVernunft in der Ku«  che ist die Entwicklung des Menschen am l a« ngsten aufgehalten, am schlimmsten beeintr a« chtigt worden. Through bad female cooksthrough the entire lack of reason inthekitchenthe development of mankind has been longest retarded and most interfered with.

- FriedrichWilhelm Nietzsche
  Jenseits von Gut und Bo«  se (Beyond Good and Evil), section 234 (translated by Helen Zimmern,1907).

   Out of the kitchen, to stew is to fret, to worry, to agitate. In the kitchen, however, to stew is to have great expectations.

- Molly O'Neill
  In the NewYork Times, 30  Jan.

Call the roller of big cigars, The muscular one, and bid him whip In kitchen cups of concupiscent curds.

-Wallace Stevens
  Harmonium,'The Emperor of Ice-Cream'.

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea. I will make my kitchen, and you shall keep your room, Where white flows the river and bright blows the broom, And you shall wash your linen and keep your body white In rainfall at morning and dewfall at night.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
  Songs ofTravel (published1896), no.11, stanza1.

'Poe,' I said,'was perhaps the first great nonstop literary drinker of the American nineteenth century. He made the indulgences of Coleridge and De Quincey seem like a bit of mischief in the kitchen with the cooking sherry.

-James Grover Thurber
  Alarms and Diversions,'The Moribundant Life, or, Grow Old Along withWhom?'.

If you can't stand the heat you better get out of the kitchen.

- Harry S Truman
  Address to theAero Club of Washington, 27 Dec, quoting a colleague from his days as a county judge.