Quotes About Cuisine

Salt is so, so, so important. If that's the one thing everyone remembers, every step of the way, whenever I cook, I try to incorporate salt.

The only thing I've cooked while entertaining is stir-fry.

shank or canned tomatoes thickened with paste for a kind of red sauce to pour over noodles.

First he caramelizes fresh-cut sweetcorn, toasting it slowly in a heavy pan, adding onions. Then cubed potatoes tossed lightly in butter, to set a crisp. He adds all of this to a garlicky chicken broth with shaved carrots, cannellini beans, fresh dill, parsley, a dash of cayenne, and heavy cream.

Susannah set the table with Provençal cotton linens, the tablecloth pale pumpkin and the napkins printed with faded red and purple flowers, her throat caught. She had wanted to make this meal so special for Sari and Grey. She set out silverware, bright crockery, a Lucite peppermill and a blue container of Fleur-de-Sel de Camargue. She still had Grey's black scallop shells and she arranged them in the center of the table, around a vase of colorful wildflowers.

There are five known fundamental tastes in the human palate: salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and umami.

Eat where the people eat, not the hotels and touristy restaurants. If a local teacher makes $50 a month and they're living decently, see what they do.

I know good cooks who'll spend days finding fresh garlic and fresh basil and fresh tarragon, etc., and then use canned tomatoes for the sauce, saying it doesn't matter. But I know it does matter.

Roll up the tortilla and place it seam-side down in the baking dish. Repeat with the remaining tortillas, snuggling them close together in the pan. P

Authenticity was tricky; trying to duplicate another country's food in America was impossible. Wasn't it better to adapt a cuisine, as he'd begun to do in Fireside with French cuisine bourgeoise? To give it an American identity and make it something new?

One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all.

I have not got accustomed to English life. The food is truly disastrous and it rains all the time.

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place.

Some phrases just have a nice ring to them, y'know? Like, "The water sprite goes flowing down the river." Or, "Ahh, spring." "It's totally autumn." "Drop dead." "Stiff roundhouse kick." Or, "Thick soy broth." See?

Her reputation as a cook spread without her knowledge- for the soups she brought to the bakery in a lidded tin for her midday meal, for her stews, for the scraps of dough that she turned into what the Russians called pelmeni and the Jews kreplach, dumplings stuffed with chopped meat and onions. She prepared hot borscht with beef in winter, shchi or cold borscht in summer, chicken cooked with prunes or a tsimmes with sweet potatoes, carrots and prunes.

Farmers especially marginal are simply the best to admire and probably next comes poor street vendors selling vegetables & fruits and then are food outlets who serve delectable , hygienic vegetarian cuisine at an affordable price that is comfortable to the pocket of the majority of the population.

Water and air together gives often more flavor than anything else to the food of that place.

I think food is getting lighter and healthier because people eat out so often. It's about quality ingredients because that is the root of good food.

I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.

I never pictured L.A. as a hub for amazing food, which I learned quite quickly is sheer naivete. The restaurants here are insane.

The crown of lamb has always been a quintessential Christmas dish, and growing up in India, we would read about lamb when learning about the holiday.

You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.

I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.