Quotes About Gastronomy

For my 16th birthday, my family took me to L'Auberge de L'Ill, which was family-run but had three Michelin stars. It was a revelation. After that meal, I realised this is what I want to do.

To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

tête de veau en tortue

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.

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

You have to eat good! I eat gorgeous food. I eat sushi, I eat meat, I eat steaks. I eat more than you, I'm sure.

So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.

The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.

Two words to improve any dish. Ba, Con

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

Someone is putting brandy in your bonbons, Grand Marnier in your breakfast jam, Kahlua in your ice cream, Scotch in your mustard and Wild Turkey in your cake.

... the agent provocateur of a good dinner.

Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.

In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare.

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

I am a serious food lover and Peruvian cuisine is one of the best in the world.

Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.

Goodness, how much there is to learn about food!

France has given us the best filmmakers and food.

Bring me an order of escargots, but hold the slugs.