Quotes About Gastronomy

I've always felt the easiest way to get to know new culture is through its food even if you don't speak the language. Food will do it for you. It's an universal language.

What they've found so far in the Amazon is 5 percent of what there is yet to discover to eat in the Amazon because it's completely unknown. I've eaten things I've never eaten before over there.

Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir.

A lot of country pubs will receive Michelin stars.

One of my favorite dishes in the world used to be steak tartare, which is raw ground beef seasoned and then served.

I make a bomb vaca frita. It's like a flank steak like with the ropa vieja, but it's fried with garlic and lime. And I make a really good picadillo.

Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine.

It's a lot harder to get people to 'ooh' and 'aah' over beets and carrots than it is to get them to 'ooh' and 'aah' over artichokes or asparagus, and I enjoy being able to take these humble, 'lowbrow' foodstuffs up a few notches and serve them with great exuberance.

To be around me, you must love food, or I'm the most obnoxious person you've ever met.

I'm kind of obsessed with food - I really am.

I happen to have an obsession with Korean food.

Terence's idea of roughing it consisted of pork pie, veal pie, cold roast beef, a ham, pickles, pickled eggs, pickled beets, cheese, bread and butter, ginger beer and a bottle of port. It was possibly the best meal I had ever had in my life.

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

A great meal can be deftly managed or thuggishly muscled, either way resulting in an original offering of scrumptiousness.

FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

To good eating belongs good drinking.

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

I got a fascination with food.

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.

Food in Chicago is the best.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

She chewed the tender meat and sucked out the juices and felt the sauce coat her tongue and roll down her throat. After that, he looked still better. Another

She cut a small piece of the gravalax and put it on a piece of black bread, daintily spooned a bit of dill sauce onto it, and ate it like it was the last piece of food in the world. I tried to imitate her, eating so slowly, tasting the raw pink fish and the coarse, sour bread, salt and sugar around the rind, flavors and scents like colors on a palette, like the tones in music.

First course: almond soup, white fricassee, boiled cod Second course: chicken patties, jugged hare, roast venison, oyster loaves, mushrooms, cauliflower pickle Dessert: apple tart, orange cream, plums in syrup