Quotes About Culinary

A Bearnaise sauce is simply an egg yolk, a shallot, a little tarragon vinegar, and butter, but it takes years of practice for the result to be perfect.

Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.

... the agent provocateur of a good dinner.

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.

Margarine? That's not food. I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can. If you're planning on using margarine in anything, you can stop reading now, because I won't be able to help you.

This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled.

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.

I have no truck with lettuce, cabbage, and similar chlorophyll. Any dietitian will tell you that a running foot of apple strudel contains four times the vitamins of a bushel of beans.

The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.

Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.

Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.

In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.

Cooking is so popular today because it's the perfect mix of food and fun.

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.

Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

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.

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?