Quotes About Cuisine

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

I make a fabulous tofurkey for Thanksgiving. My Mexican-Italian family can't tell the difference.

In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy.

To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

Lidia, this is how America has to cook Italian." And with this wonderful book, she showed us all how.

Marcella Hazan

Italians love to grow and eat vegetables, and in each of the twenty regions of the country, there is a favorite one.

Escoffier, whose philosophy was "Good food is the basis of true happiness.

One of the reasons that people enjoy coming to a great restaurant is that when an extraordinary meal is placed in front of them, they feel honored, respected, and even a little bit loved.

tête de veau en tortue

Rice," the Italians say, "is born in water and dies in wine.

Corn, beans, and squash are as constantly wedded in Indian cooking today as they were in the past. Sometimes meat is added: for the early Indians that meat would often have been puppy.

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

Without butter, without eggs, there is no reason to come to France.

The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

My favorite animal is steak.

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too.

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.

I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.

Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour.

Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.