Quotes About Cuisine

Bengalis have the best skin and hair; there's something more about the fish from here. I think I will start ordering fish from Bengal!

One thing I'll tell you is the food in Sacramento is off the charts. You've got good Asian food, the farm system where everything is natural, which I believe in. I like organic.

My maternal grandmother, a.k.a. Nanny, wasn't much of a cook. As a kid I remember her making only a handful of things, mostly dishes with Ashkenazi Jewish origins like kasha and bowties (which, for the record, only my dad liked).

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

Going down to New Orleans, that's where I end up with the best meals.

The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans.

It's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other.

New Orleans has a lot of good food.

New Orleans is great for a lot of the old-school charm and character.

I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.

I'm obsessed with Chinese food and culture. It's food that I adore above all others.

I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.

Delhi's food is just outstanding.

In the South, the food is outstanding. Down south, we eat to get full, and the people up north, they don't do that.

I use my Le Creuset dutch oven for everything you can think of. I even fry eggs in it.

I don't like to use 'gourmet' because it has become so overused and abused.

grilled hot dogs, hamburgers and vegetables; melted cheese; tomato sauce; garlic; sausage; fried fish; baked pies; cinnamon and sugar; apple tarts; and on and on.

Jay had learned that in Japan, sushi chefs might put a touch of wasabi inside a nigiri, using a larger dab of wasabi with fatty fish, and a smaller one with lean. But they never served extra wasabi on the side. They would serve a pinch on the side with sashimi—plain raw fish, without rice. But diners certainly weren't supposed to mix the wasabi into their soy sauce and apply it indiscriminately.

His mother taught him how to keep watch and how to fight and how to defend his queen at all costs. His father taught him how to make camel shish kebab and date soufflé.

What are bashed neeps? Neeps hackit with balmagowry.

Super Squirrel (écureuil dans une Sauce Rouillée)

Less frightening, but no less disgusting, is the Iranian taste for jam made out of carrots.

The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.