Quotes About Cuisine

The stand he wants to open'll sell gyros, he says. He's not Italian after all.

I adore food and always have.

I don't eat anything on an airplane.

I stopped eating airplane food; it's not that good.

I love to eat rajma chawal anytime.

Just. Plain. [Fu*king.] Grilled. Swordfish.

I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.

Americans have never really caught on to the idea of eating sheep. I think they think it's cissy.

Pierre mixed the salad. The romaine and cress he doused with walnut oil chilled to an emulsion, turning it with wooden forks so that the bruises showed on the green in dark lines. He poured on the souring of wine vinegar and the juice of young grapes, seasoned with shallots, pepper and salt, a squeeze of anchovy, and a pinch of mustard. At the Faison d'Or the salad was in wedlock with the roast." (p.24)

Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie.

APrimo First course, usually a substantial pasta, rice or zuppa (soup) dish. ASecondo Second course, often carne (meat) or pesce (fish). AContorno Side dish, usually verdura (vegetable). ADolce Dessert; including torta (cake). AFrutta Fruit; usually the epilogue to a meal. ANostra produzione Made in-house. ASurgelato Frozen; usually used to denote fish or seafood not freshly caught.

I love spicy food.

What exactly is a French before it's fried? -Vo Spader

Some versions of crab cakes are mostly crabmeat lightly bound with egg, but I'm a firm believer that a crab cake should contain bread crumbs.

Most Mexican restaurants serve fake, heavy versions of my home country's cuisine. But real Mexican food is full of brilliant, fresh flavors.

Being a Punjabi, it is very hard to say this, but Punjabi food is very overrated.

The podcast by 'The Kitchen Sisters' celebrates the staggering variety of a society of immigrants via its food, from the Sheepherders' Ball in Boise, Idaho, through the favoured cuisine of Emily Dickinson to the unbelievable rituals of the great rural barbecue.

Most British tapas bars aren't bars at all. They're restaurants that specialise in tapas. Nothing wrong with that, but it's a bit different from the Spanish way of doing things, in which tapas is an adjunct to the drinks and the general vibe.

I'm head-over-heels in love with Southeast Asia. Every time I touch down in Thailand, Cambodia, or Vietnam, the air washes over me, and I feel like I'm home. From the people to the food to the history, there's just no place like it.

In Hue, Vietnam, we had savory rice pancakes with crumbled shrimp and pork rinds. I've still never had a version as good.

Laos is considered by many as the dark horse of Southeast Asian cuisine, a culmination of the rich food heritage of neighbouring countries China, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand.

I cook Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, I've always liked to cook.

I love how Vietnamese cuisine always tastes like flowers, and how they had the ingenious idea of pairing that floral flavor with seafood: such a combination shouldn't work as well as it does.

My parents always wanted me to learn about my culture and tried to make me eat Vietnamese food.