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Quotes About Culinary

I'm not sure what makes pepperoni so good — if it's the pepper or the oni.
~ S. A. Sachs
Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good.
~ S. Truett Cathy
We continued with lunch—dry sandwiches and something ruinous that had been done to tomatoes
~ Margaret Atwood
I've made a few nice dishes in my time, but this must be the best I've ever made.
~ Jamie Oliver
No one had ever called me unnatural before, except for the time I put ketchup on a taco. But seriously, we'd been out of salsa, so what else was I supposed to do?
~ Richelle Mead
But for the time being, I've only learned one cake recipe and how to make scrambled eggs.
~ Eva Herzigova
Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.
~ Alexandra Guarnaschelli
My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.
~ Marie-Antoine Careme
Initially let your food do the talking. You'll be surprised how far you go in a short period of time.
~ Gordon Ramsay
The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.
~ Nora Ephron
We ought to enjoy our food, we ought to take time and care and prepare it correctly, and we ought to have fun doing it and make it a communal event.
~ Julia Child
Brussels sprouts, peaches
~ Anne Fadiman
As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?
~ Anne Frank
The future belongs to chefs, not to cooks or bottle washers. It's easy to buy a cookbook (filled with instructions to follow) but really hard to find a chef book.
~ Seth Godin
I'm an excellent pastry chef. My pie crust is better than my Zia Rosa's. Come on back to the kitchen. I'll make a chocolate cream pie before your very eyes. I'll feed a piece of it to you by hand. And by the time I'm done, you're not going to be asking me if I'm gay anymore. She cleared her throat, gaze darting down. Is that so. It is, he said. On your feet. Come on back to the kitchen. I mean it. I'm dead serious. It's pie time. And I am so ready for you.
~ Shannon McKenna
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)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Early in my life I had made a pact with myself. I would never eat anything that moved when I cooked it, excited the dog, or inflated upon impact with my teeth.
~ Erma Bombeck
Why take pride in cooking, when they don't take pride in eating?
~ Erma Bombeck
Fermentation is right up there with cooking as one of the most powerful methods to transform food.
~ John Durant
Slow cooking is one of the oldest methods of cooking.
~ John Durant
The hardest bones of beef itself, and mutton, were made as soft as cheese Source: http://www.evs-translations.com/blog-com/pressure-cooker/
~ John Evelyn
Let me put it this way. . . . It's not the best. Eating the bacon is a little like chewing shards of pottery. And the eggs deserved a better fate.
~ John Flanagan
curry plays a nostalgic, retrogressive role in British culinary culture; the proliferation of restaurants specializing in it is a consolation prize for the loss of world-historical consequence; we are to be understood as having given away the Empire and received in return, in delayed settlement of that very considerable invoice, the street-corner tandoori house.
~ John Lanchester