Quotes About Gourmet

I can cook a five-course meal.

Money means better meals at better places.

My palate is very sensitive with food.

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

Meat has become a passion for me.

Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine.

Foie gras is a breeze to cook, something that can't go wrong.

Warm glazed potatoes with caviar, tapioca, and herbs; yellowfin tuna ribbons with avocado, spicy radish, and ginger marinade; diver scallops with caramelized cauliflower and a caper-raisin emulsion; black sea bass crusted with nuts and seeds, with a sweet-and-sour jus.

I don't like gourmet cooking or "this" cooking or "that" cooking. I like good cooking.

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

Meat Glaze (demi-glace) It's handy to have meat glaze for thickening a pan sauce and giving it body. You can make your own meat glaze by cooking chicken broth down to a fraction of its original volume (definitely a weekend project), or you can buy commercial meat glaze. One of the better meat glazes is made by More-than-Gourmet, usually found in the gourmet section of the supermarket. Meat glaze can be stored in the refrigerator for several months and can be frozen indefinitely.

Henry tells me that this particular sort of mushroom was a great favorite of the emperor Claudius. Interesting, because you remember how Claudius died." I did remember. Agrippina had slipped a poisoned one into his dish one night.

Then he got out, whistling tunelessly under his breath and pulling a sheaf of mail and a small sack of groceries from the passenger seat as he did so. A long, narrow pain d'epi stuck up from the sack like a flagpole; while he considered himself a gourmet chef, the art of bread baking was a skill that had always eluded him. Besides, there was a place in Santa Fe that made the best French bread he'd tasted this side of the Rive Gauche.

People who can't make the simple distinction between what tastes good or bad have disqualified themselves from the human race," was one of his pet theories.

The cat is a dilettante in fur.

I adore dark chocolate.

I was in pure, flavorful heaven at the Cordon Bleu.

On Thursday, the sandwiches Greenie made were pork tenderloins with chipotle mustard, the soup a puree of beets and pears with Beaujolais wine and dill. For dessert, she made lemon wafers, rosewater marshmallows, and Amazon cake powdered with cocoa. Ray said, eyeing her preparations that morning. Fancy schmancy. That soup looks like something we'd serve to folks from the White House. Greenie said simply, Thank you.

No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.

Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen. My mother was a gourmet chef and I'm the youngest of five kids. We would always congregate in the kitchen.

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.

Great food needed more than chefs; it needed gourmet diners.

Great wine is always enhanced by great food.

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.