Quotes About Taste

Between the ages of six and nine, my palette was taking shape as well as my identity as a chef. It was then that I learned the difference between salty, sweet, sour and even spicy.

You can add things to savoury dishes as you cook, but sweet dishes are more challenging.

Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

Anchovies pair really well with fruit like a nectarines or clementine. The fruit complements the sweetness and saltiness of the anchovy.

I do not like sweets. But if I have to choose one, it has to be rasmalai.

As a kid, I was never into sweets, and I never really drank.

I'm lucky, I don't like sweets, not even chocolate.

I don't eat sweets. I'm not a big dessert guy.

If I switch on the radio and hear some nice classical music, I will sit and listen to it but I don't sort of play records or go for any particular type of music.

I'd be much more likely to watch the latest Tarantino movie than to listen to a Mahler symphony.

When I drink water, I put syrup in it.

Beets, they claim, taste like dirt. And they do, actually, although most beet aficionados prefer the term "earthy.

She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.

In the years since, she had discovered the sacrament of life did not demand memory. Like a leaf that drank from the morning dew, you didn't question the morning sunrise or the sweet taste on your mouth. You just drank.

People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

If you did get any of this sauce on your lips, I'd be happy to lick it off for you.

Palate properly whetted, I spelunked for her clitoris, tasting Bourgogne Rouge and Maya's body.

had to gulp the coffee, and it was as hot as hell's dishwater.

There's nothing sweeter than a cup of bitter coffee.

I grew up hearing everyone tell me 'God loves you'. I would say big deal, God loves everybody. That don't make me special! That just proves that God ain't got no taste. And, I don't think He does. Thank God! Because He takes the junk of our lives and makes the most beautiful art.

The longer I live, the more I have the feeling like God looks down, like when you've just bitten into a vanilla ice cream cone, you just get the feeling God's going, 'Yes! He enjoys it, and I made his taste buds and I made vanilla and he's putting it together and he's experiencing what I created him to experience.

Connoisseurs need not be aristocratic, but must adopt or reject people and tastes according to a patrician sensibility that ignores the worlds of productivity and profit. Money is esteemed as a means to acquire what they value, but despised as a provider of power, showiness, luxury, over-eating or barbarous hobbies.

I wonder is happiness only an essence of good living, that you shall taste only once or twice while you live, and then go on living with the taste in your mouth, and wishing you had the fulness of it solid between your teeth, like a good meal that you have tasted and cherished, and look back in your mind to eat again.