Steingarten Jeffrey Quotes & Sayings

Comparing Ferran with Heston or Grant makes no
more sense than comparing three painters because
they buy the same brand of brushes. - Jeffrey Steingarten — Grant Achatz

Whenever I have nothing better to do, I roast a chicken. — Jeffrey Steingarten

My job is to build that belief in every coach and every owner, that they can put the franchise in my hands and I can take it uphill from there. Obviously, everyone wants to be No. 1, but I'm not going to campaign. I'm just going to go out and show what I've got. — Robert Griffin III

Among the cognoscenti, though, it is not just about elaborate new flavors. I always consider the main test of ice cream to be the simple ice creams, especially vanilla. One should have fun when one eats, but it should also be seriously good. — Jeffrey Steingarten

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock. — Ronald Reagan

Maybe evolution is irrelevant at dinnertime. — Jeffrey Steingarten

I am reminded that while New Yorkers say "standing on line," the rest of the English-speaking world says "standing in line. — Jeffrey Steingarten

The alternative to the myth of pure evil is that most of the harm that people visit on one another comes from motives that are found in every normal person. — Steven Pinker

You don't usually come back from walking the dog with women who look like they just escaped from The Care Bears Meet Mad Max. (Tom)
To be fair, that's less a statement of the sort of things I'm likely to find interesting, and more a critique of the available resources. If the woods gave me more Mad Max refugees, I would definitely bring them home. (Dr. Abbey) — Mira Grant

There's no right or wrong when it comes to love. — Kristina Rienzi

But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair. — Jeffrey Steingarten

Vegetarianism is always the product of scarcity, of religion, or of ideology, including nutritional fads and fashions. — Jeffrey Steingarten

A famous cigarette billboard pictures a curly-headed, bronze-faced, muscular macho with a cigarette hanging out the side of his mouth. The sign reads 'Where a man belongs.' That is a lie. Where a man belongs is at the bedside of his children, leading in devotion and prayer. Where a man belongs is leading his family to the house of God. Where a man belongs is up early and alone with God seeking vision and direction for the family. — John Piper

Whenever I travel to the South, the first thing I do is visit the best barbecue place between the airport and my hotel. An hour or two later I visit the best barbecue place between my hotel and dinner. — Jeffrey Steingarten

As a leftover sixties liberal, I believe that the long arm and beady eyes of the government have no place in our bedrooms, our kitchens, or the backseats of our parked cars. But I also feel that the immediate appointment of a Special Pastry Prosecutor would do much more good than harm. We know the free market has totally failed when 89 percent of all the tart pastry, chocolate-chip cookies, and tuiles in America are far less delicious than they would be if bakers simply followed a few readily available recipes. What we need is a system of graduated fines and perhaps short jail sentences to discourage the production of totally depressing baked goods. Maybe a period of unpleasant and tedious community service could be substituted for jail time. — Jeffrey Steingarten

Of all types of birds, birds of prey have always fascinated people. — Jim Knight

What's so bad about addiction? I can't remember. Isn't it something about giving up your freedom? Isn't freedom an illusion? — Jeffrey Steingarten

As long as I can remember, male candy eaters have been ill-used, misunderstood, and denigrated, in films and on television, as weak, self-indulgent, soft, effeminate, undisciplined, and venal. Most of us have been driven underground. We eat our candy alone and on the sly. We never experience the intimacy of sharing candy with others - unless we have chosen our mates wisely. — Jeffrey Steingarten

The only thing more enjoyable than chocolate, is bacon. — Jeffrey Steingarten

In Valencia, when you catch snails for your paella, you feed them rosemary for a few days, both to purge them and to give them flavor. — Jeffrey Steingarten

Subsistence, I am happy to report, is not much of a problem for me these days either. I could probably subsist for a decade or more on the food energy I have thriftily wrapped around various parts of my body. — Jeffrey Steingarten

Bad bread wrecks my outlook on life. — Jeffrey Steingarten