Quotes About Culinary

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . .

La ley prohibe que en tu testamento dispongas: con el solomillo de mi cadaver se hara roast-beef para mis hijos y nietos debera quedar dorado por fuera y sangrante por dentro y servirse con patatas hervidas al vapor.

Mariko had given her notorious sweet tooth full rein. Lex stared at the table of food and could already feel the sugar eating cavities into her enamel. Banana nut bread, sesame-crusted Chinese doughnuts, almond cookies, fruit cocktail and almond custard, steamed egg cake, even honey walnut prawns. On the non-Asian side was rum cake, blueberry pecan muffins, strawberry almond rolls, and croissants.

Now you two spindly Earthmen are going to have the best meal of your lives! Broiled dinosaur on real Venusian black bread!

ive alwasys said i the cook on the bus i at the beach all the time

After making my way through a bowl full of lawn (Sure, Dana had said it was exotic sautéed greens, but it smelled like the grass in Griffith Park to me.), a cold purée of squash soup (Cold. Squash. Two words that should never be thrown together in the same recipe.), and a platter of seared kelp (I'm sorry, anything that washes up onto the beach is not considered food in my world.), I

Luncher is a combo of lunch and dinner. Too late for lunch, but too early for dinner. Trademark pending.

It was just Gaston's luck that Orro's prized duck, which he had worked on for three days, had finished cooking. Gaston cut off another piece, speared a sliver of potato dusted with herbs, and chewed with obvious pleasure. "Should we leave you two alone?" Sean asked.

Eating Orro's food was as close as you could get to nirvana without enlightenment.

Am I not a master of my craft?" He paused, glaring at me. "Of course you are," I said, trying to keep my voice soothing. This would end in disaster. "Then you will bring this Grand Burger to me and I shall make it. You will taste it and you will weep, for it will be the best Grand Burger to ever grace a human mouth." He spun around dramatically and stalked off into the kitchen. "We should get him a cape," Sean said.

manjar blanco, also called dulce de leche, a kind of blancmange

Comenzaban por hacer una fogata en el patio con leña y carbón. Encima se colgaba de un trípode una olla de hierro negra por el uso, donde se echaban los ingredientes, en proporción de cuatro tazas de leche por una de azúcar, se aromatizaba con dos palitos de vainilla y la cáscara de un limón, se hervía pacientemente durante horas, revolviendo de vez en cuando con una larguísima cuchara de madera.

My wife and I use a lot of garlic and rosemary with roast lamb. It has to be New Zealand lamb. The domestic variety is too gamy, in my experience.

When we visit New Zealand for family holidays, one of my first stops is to buy fresh mussels.

On 'Chopped,' the time goes down a bit and there are several ingredients, usually one that makes no sense whatsoever with the rest of the ingredients. So it gets you out of your culinary comfort zone a little bit. Like we had octopus and cheese paired up with each other.

When I visit my brother in South Africa, I order things I've only seen in zoos. Little deers and kudu, all the mammals you would never think of eating.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks.

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.