Quotes About Experience

I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.

What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world.

The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.

In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.

Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

...it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source.

The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare.

I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.

By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water."

When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.

I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.

Fondue is not a good date food. You end up with cheese dripping down your face.

Europe was a horrible place. There was nothing on TV. The food was terrible. And they don't even have ice. Who doesn't have ice?

In the last analysis, a pickle is a cucumber with experience.

Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.

One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.

It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.

You can't be happy that fire cooks your food and be mad it burns your fingertips.

The first weeks in the US, I was asking, 'Where is my food?'

I've been to Indonesia, but I've never been to Thailand. I hear the people are lovely, the food is delicious, and that the heat and humidity are lethal.

No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.