Quotes About Cuisine

I love any excuse to work with a mortar and pestle.

The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredient.

Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke.

New Orleans has a mythology, a personality, a soul, that is large, and that has touched people around the world. It has its own music (many of its own musics), its own cuisine, its own way of talking, its own architecture, its own smell, its own look and feel.

people of New Orleans spun a culture out of their lives—a music, a cuisine, a sense of life—that has been recognized around the world as a transforming spiritual force.

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Le goût juif, the French said.

I ate a rough country terrine made of truffled pork with thyme and forgot about talking.

All recipes are spells and all cooks are witches.

Hunger is the best cook.

No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.

LEE'S BREAD DIPPING SAUCE ½ teaspoon crushed red pepper 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 teaspoon dried rosemary 1 teaspoon dried basil 1 teaspoon dried parsley 1 teaspoon garlic powder ½ teaspoon salt ¼ cup really good quality extra-virgin olive oil Mix all the ingredients except the olive oil. Put in a shallow pan or bowl. Pour olive oil over the spices. Serve with Italian or French bread. (You can add more oil if needed.)

When the Marchese de Caracciolo wrote to the King of Naples that in England he had discovered a country of '22 religions and two sauces', these were not words of praise.

On the Continent people have good food in England people have good table manners.

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later, you're hungry again.

The trouble with eating Italian is that 5 or 6 days later, you're hungry again.

His stomach could not tolerate the snails and lampreys and other rich food Captain Khorane so relished, and after his first meal at the captain's table he spent the rest of the day with one end or the other dangling over the rail.

Vegetarian: A person who eats only side dishes.

Fat gives things flavor.

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.

Nouvelle cuisine, roughly translated, means "I can't believe I spent ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry."

I've never understood the appeal of anything referred to as 'hash.

I like to cook." "Really? I like to eat.

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