Quotes About Cuisine

My favourite meal is probably chicken with penne pasta and pesto.

I don't go a day without eating pasta.

I am an expert at applying premade pesto to pasta.

I love food, and I love carbs: Pasta, rice - that's my thing.

I love pasta. It's something in the water. The pasta and the bread in New York are so good.

I love Italian food, such as pasta or lasagna.

I cook roasts and pasta and curries and all sorts of things - generally things that aren't one composite thing, like a cake is.

I'm a purist when it comes to certain foods, and al pastor tacos (known as adobada tacos to us in Tijuana) is one of those foods. I lived off them - literally.

Nothing could be more French than pastry.

I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas.

Only the French people say French food is the finest cuisine in the world. If you ask anyone else, they will tell you the best food in the world is Italian.

My least favorite ingredient to cook with is black pepper.

Fish cakes are perceived as being quite British, and they're always a bit brown and a little dull.

My brother is working to change the perception of Chinese food in America.

Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.

I cook. I did the Escoffier course in Paris when I was 21 in one of those periods when it was like a pause. I can cook anything Italian, Chinese.

No Persian meal is complete without an abundance of herbs.

Tripes, poumons, coeur de porc, etc., tout cela cuit à la vapeur avec du vin de riz.

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

When I was young, one Sunday every month or so, my mom would load my brothers and me into our station wagon and drive 80 miles north to Orange County, where we'd meet our extended family at a Persian restaurant for lunch.

'Fine dining.' I'd love to know who coined the term and whether they meant it to be as offputting as it is. The words evoke an idea of phoney refinement, of needless flummery, snooty waiters, and an atmosphere designed to intimidate the customer.

I like L.A. It's like a mini break. For a writer, it's hilarious. Like the food. Where I come from, we eat chip sandwiches: white bread, butter, tomato catsup and big fat french fries. It's delicious. Here, you order a creme caramel and the waiter says, 'You know, that contains dairy.'

You know how someone - something - surprises you. You wake up a little bit. That's done through Chinese cuisine - for example, through dishes of artifice. That's a whole sub-tradition in Chinese cuisine. To create a dish that comes to the table looking like one thing but actually is something else.

I only eat meat if I go to a nice restaurant and there is an exceptional dish, or if I'm at somebody's home for a dinner, I'll eat whatever is in front of me. Otherwise, I don't eat anything that walks around and has a face.