Quotes About Ingredient

Salt's relationship to flavor is multidimensional: It has its own particular taste, and it both balances and enhances the flavor of other ingredients.

Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better.

If you can't taste an ingredient, you have to ask yourself why it is there.

I love both garlic and onions, and this word pithily captures the rich tastes of both.

Parma is an amazing Parmesan cheese substitute made from walnuts. It tastes like a dream and is healthy, to boot!

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

I dislike cloyingly sweet desserts - sweet is not a flavor - so I suggest dialing back the sweetness and focusing on what the dessert is about, whether it is a ripe fruit, chocolate, etc.

For baked goods where lightness is a prized attribute - almost all cakes, some cookies - it's important to start with room-temperature butter.

My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes.

The onion is the truffle of the poor.

to be an essential ingredient in its structure that it shall be under a private not a public direction, under the guidance of individual interest, not of public policy.

Then I added a dash of salt, which counteracts the natural bitterness of coffee

I also like a great Caesar salad with anchovies, although I don't know why some places say 'with anchovies.' If you're making a proper Caesar salad, it's going to have anchovies.

Chefs don't use white pepper just to avoid spoiling the whiteness of pommes puree or bechamel. It has a more peppery aroma, with sharpness and sweetness, too.

For centuries, pates have been one of the greatest vehicles for wild game. But making a pate, which is nothing more than a meatloaf, has tended to be a laborious task, with ingredient lists as long as a shotgun barrel.

Everything tastes better with butter. Meat that has fat in it is tender in a certain way, flavorful in a certain way. It's hard to deny the flavor quotient there.

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

Awareness is a key ingredient in success. If you have it, teach it, if you lack it, seek it.

There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.