Quotes About Culinary

I made a sandwich out of things. I'm an American. We can eat anything as long as it's between two pieces of bread.

Molly once burned my egg. My boiled egg. I don't know how.

Charity was like the MacGyver of the kitchen. She could whip up a five-course meal for twelve from an egg, two spaghetti noodles, some household chemicals, and a stick of chewing gum. Molly… Molly once burned my egg. My boiled egg. I don't know how.

I've never met a lasagna I didn't like

One thing that has gone wrong in America is the general acceptance of bad ham

You have come nearer to mastering a good many aspects of cooking than anyone except a handful of great chefs, and some day it will pay off. I know it will. You will just have to go on working, and teaching, and getting around, and spreading the gospel until it does. (Avis DeVoto to Julia Child)

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At the same time, Italian sausage, breadsticks, antipasto, and spaghetti vied for air supremacy.

LAZY POTATO PANCAKES 3½ cups frozen hash brown potatoes 2 eggs (2 extra large or 3 small) ¼ cup grated onion (or ½ teaspoon onion powder) 1 teaspoon season salt ½ teaspoon black pepper 2 Tablespoons cracker crumbs (matzo meal or flour will also work) 1/8 cup butter (¼ stick, 1 ounce) for frying 1/8 cup good olive oil for frying Toppings for the Table: sour cream applesauce cherry sauce*** blueberry sauce*** apricot sauce***

My sense of smell seemed preternaturally enhanced, so that I could almost taste every dish- the fish grilled in the ashes of the brazier, the roasted goat's cheese, the dark pancakes and the light, the hot chocolate cake, the confit de canard and the spiced merguez...

Instead she wants to know every detail of the menu I have planned for her party, relishing everything in advance. She is brimming with suggestions. Brandade trufée, vol-au-vents aux trois champignons , cooked in wine and cream with wild chanterelles as a garnish, grilled langoustines with arugula salad, five different types of chocolate cake, all her favorites, homemade chocolate ice cream...

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool genre of television.

Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.

Hey, Dad, you've got to taste what we just did. It's actually good. (Omari) That is good. What did you two do? (Devyn) No idea. We just added spices until it didn't suck anymore. (Omari)

The most enviable genius in literary history is the guy who invented alphabet soup: nobody knows who he is.

with onions and carrots drawn up like a retinue

chicken salad.

Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it was going to do something clever, like try to escape from the pot.

What did I do? he said. Cake! It's cake! Delicious cake!

Want me to warm up the sauce?" "Do we do that? I mean, it's in a jar, right? Can't you just dump it over the pasta?" "Well, you can, but it tastes better if you warm it up." "Oh." Eve sighed. "This is complicated. No wonder I never cook.

Whoever invented adding melted cheese over starchy goodness was surely the most brilliant human ever.