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Quotes About Flavors

I'm fascinated by Japanese cuisine.
~ Eric Ripert
I would like to know more about how to cook Japanese food. I love it, but don't know much about it.
~ Daniel Humm
People come from all over the world to sample Jamaican jerk.
~ Rita Marley
I am all about the complicated ice cream. Ben & Jerry's is my go-to. I like as many things in there as possible.
~ Matt McGorry
Sephardic Jews were always known as good cooks.
~ Gil Marks
I grew up going to bakeries in Tel Aviv; that's where we got our birthday cakes, they were always European baking and butter creams. We have such good baking in Israel, and we have the Diaspora of Jews from all over, and we learned early on to adapt and absorb flavors from all over.
~ Ron Ben-Israel
Kitchen-sink cookies, Trishiffany proclaimed. Sounds disgusting, right? But I've always been so torn about chocolate chips versus butterscotch chips, but here you don't even have to choose. Walnuts and peanuts! Oatmeal and cornflakes! Raisins and dried cherries. Not to mention the shredded coconut. Sometimes we just need our little freedoms, you know?
~ Helen Phillips
They who are at work abroad are not cold, but rather it is they who sit shivering in houses. As with temperatures, so with flavors; as with cold and heat, so with sour and sweet.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I make a great account of these fruits, which the farmers do not think it worth the while to gather,—wild flavors of the Muse, vivacious and inspiriting. The farmer thinks that he has better in his barrels, but he is mistaken, unless he has a walker's appetite and imagination, neither of which can he have.
~ Henry David Thoreau
When I think of flavours, I think colour, so lemon should be yellow and orange is orange.
~ Dylan Lauren
The best place to use vanilla beans is anywhere where they won't be mixed in with a million other flavors. Anything with dairy, yogurt, milk, cream, or eggs - any custard or flan - how can it be bad?
~ Alex Guarnaschelli
Yogurt sauce, as you may have noticed by now, is a regular presence in my recipes - that's because it has the ability to round up so many flavours and textures like no other component does.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We don't buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time.
~ Cat Cora
My love for artichokes comes from when I was very young. My mother and father would slice the hearts and fry them, and they would be crispy around the leaves and tender at the base.
~ Jose Andres
I learned at a young age what chasing flavors meant, and I've been doing that my whole life.
~ Marcus Samuelsson
My mom can cook really good Cuban food, so we go eat there on the regular. And the Cuban coffee - you know how you drink coffee at a really young age.
~ Dominik Garcia-Lorido
I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
~ Hanya Yanagihara
If you don't treat an ingredient and its flavors with respect - if you drown it in oil, for instance - you'll spoil it.
~ Alain Ducasse
There are more than 800 different types of olive tree and each region has its own varieties, creating unique flavours.
~ Carol Drinkwater
The more toppings a man has on his pizza, I believe the more manly he is. [...] A manly man don't want it piled high with vegetables! He would call that a sissy pizza.
~ Herman Cain
Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.
~ Ferran Adria
I'm slightly obsessed with the BBQ - I'll be cooking breakfast on it next.
~ Gethin Jones
Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
I'm a big online everything. But for me, shopping online started with music, obviously, then it went onto books, meditation CDs, and I just recently bought these electronic cigarettes. My husband is trying to quit smoking, so I went online and I bought those BluCigs cigarettes in every flavor for him.
~ Fergie