Quotes About Gourmet

I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff.

Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.

Béarnaise? With lamb?' said Anne. 'Of course. The dish which left the poor Duc de Guermantes so famished that he had no time to chat with the dying Swann's dubious daughter before hurrying off to dinner.

Plane food is terrible.

Few things grace a plate as dramatically as a whole plucked upland bird, however it's cooked.

I'm a connoisseur of sausage.

Sushi is something very exclusive. It is not like a McDonald's, not like a hot dog, not like a French fry. It's very high-class cooking in Japan.

Crab meat is surprisingly sweet in its purest form, which is why it is often pepped up with zippy chilli and lifted with citrus.

Dark chocolate-covered blueberries are my favorite sweet.

I asked what would be in the omelet, and he said four eggs, salt, pepper, one tablespoon tarragon butter, two tablespoons cream, two tablespoons dry white wine, one-half teaspoon minced shallots, one-third cup whole almonds, and twenty fresh mushrooms.

Her Majesty's daughter Princess Helena and her granddaughter Princess Thora are visiting. Here's the menu: consommé aux fines herbes, cheese croutons, poached fillet of sole with parsley sauce and potatoes à la crème, puree of squab à la chasseur, creamed celery, pork chops with apples, red cabbage and duchesse potatoes, iced pudding à la Prince Albert, canary pudding with vanilla sauce, anchovy toast.

Tiramisu for desert.

Much you know about it," Susan said disagreeably. "James Bond eats all the time. He thinks he's a gourmet or something. He gives people karate chops if they shake his martinis ten times instead of twelve. Not that I blame him. I mean, being chased and scared and beaten up uses up a lot of energy. If I ever write a suspense story, I'll have my people eating lots.

My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex.

Cheese is one of my great weaknesses, I could eat the stuff by the pound.

I love chocolate in any form, be it cookies, cakes or milkshakes.

I love quinoa. It's great, it cooks like rice and is better than caviar.

Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing.

The typical American female is sure that she has genius as a couturière, as an interior decorator, as a gourmet cook, and, always, as a courtesan. Usually she is wrong on four counts. But don't try to tell her so." He had added, "Unless you can catch one not over twelve and segregate her, especially from her mother—and even that may be too late.

I ate a great quantity of turbot, some boiled mutton and a few nicely-dressed woodcocks, each set upon a toast which had been spread with the bird's "trails", peppered. "Trails" means guts. I also drank some wine.

At last the meal was ready to go up, the cream of carrot soup resting in its tureen; the fish pale in its butter sauce; the beef proudly browned and crackling with heat, its sauce of wine, demi-glace, and shallots poured around its base; the potatoes crisp; the greens resting in a bowl with a light sprinkling of a wine and lemon sauce; the lemon tart to be set on the sideboard for after

Orgasmic garlic mashed potatoes

Escargot is pretty good.

I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.