Quotes About Cuisine

Piper chose a pan-roasted and porcini-dusted chicken over a mushroom, artichoke, and Parmesan risotto, while Bertrand and Marguerite both ordered the sauté of Gulf shrimp in a pancetta, sun-dried tomato, and basil beurre blanc with goat-cheese grits.

After the buffet dinner of seafood gumbo, snow crab claws, oysters Bienville, crawfish étouffée, and creole jambalaya

Just go into any 'home cooking' restaurant in any town you're visiting. If the menu lists macaroni and cheese as a vegetable-- you know you're in the South.

A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don't have to buy the knife I have. You don't have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen.

Gazpacho Coarsely chop 5 large plum tomatoes, 1 red pepper, 1 small onion, and 1/2 of a seedless cucumber. Add to the vegetables 1/2 cup red wine vinegar, 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice, 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil, and 1 1/4 cups tomato juice and mix well. Season with a pinch of cayenne pepper, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon black pepper, and 1/4 cup chopped fresh dill. Serves six.

Not even the Swedes would put camembert and Tandoori sauce in a burger.

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

Miso is another fermented whole soy food. This thick paste is commonly mixed with hot water to make a delicious soup that's a staple in Japanese cuisine. If you want to give it a try, I suggest white miso, which has a mellower flavor than red miso.

Whereas once medieval Europe had adhered to a common Catholic religion, a common Latin language, and common well-spiced cuisine (at least, for the elite), the balkanization of the Christian world along national lines now meant that nations could no longer gather around the same table as easily as before. Even though it would take some years, the Europe-wide fashion for spices-as much as Latin-would be a casualty of Martin Luther's squabble with the bishop of Rome.

Dimly lit restaurants always make me think they're trying to hide the food.

and the bakers went south to Rome because Romans, it turned out, loved German bread.

He says that everything a cook needs to know—everything, mind you—is contained in five books: Escoffier, Larousse, Hering's Dictionary, La Repetoire. I tell him that's only four. "And Câreme," he says. He pauses. "No one wants.

ik wist alleen dat het een streek is waar confit de canard wordt gegeten; en confit de canard leek me niet goed te verenigen met een burgeroorlog. Maar ik kon me vergissen.

that if a civil war should break out in France, it would take a while to reach the south-west. I knew next to nothing about the south-west, really, only that it was a region where they ate duck confit, and duck confit struck me as incompatible with civil war.

if a civil war should break out in France, it would take a while to reach the southwest. I knew next to nothing about the southwest, really, only that it was a region where they ate duck confit, and duck confit struck me as incompatible with civil war.

wine me, dine me and agree with me

My corned beef, a deep meaty magenta, was shaggy tender and served in a wide bowl with boiled cabbage, potatoes, carrots, and turnips.

Sanabalis never seemed to eat, and he deflected most of her questions about Dragon cuisine. Then again, he deflected most of her questions about Dragons, period. Which was annoying because he was one, and could in theory be authorative.

If music modulates our feelings, so does food; and all the fine cuisines of the world are based on that knowledge. The

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.

Fettucine Alfredo is just Macaroni and cheese for adults

I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.

When you look at it, on the surface Japan is very westernized, but westernized in a Japanese way," explains Mitsunori Murata, a nutrition expert and professor of pediatrics at Tokyo Women's Medical College. "Maybe we will eat a hamburger, but it will be Japanese-size, not American.