Quotes About Quality

The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.

Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: Is it good? Does it give pleasure?

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.

Just because food is served fast doesn't mean it has to be made with cheap raw ingredients, highly processed with preservatives and fillers and stabilizers and artificial colors and flavors.

Two women at a resort discussed dinner: "The food here is lousy," the first noted. "You're right! And such small portions!!" the second added

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

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

I think every culture is passionate about food; some are just passionate about food and the food is shitty.

For the organic food, the less it's designed, the better it is

I think it is true that you can eat extremely healthy food at McDonald's, and you can eat amazingly badly at Chipotle.

I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.

You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.

Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.

Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.

Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

Food availability is not really the issue. The quality of the food is what we recognize is the problem.

She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

If it doesn't rot, it's not real food.

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

High-quality food is better for your health.

The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body.

I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems.