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Quotes About Sauces

Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homestores can be pricey so pay a visit to your local hardware store and pick up a few paint brushes which are less expensive and work equally as well.
~ Bobby Flay
The Da Jing street market is little more than a few narrow intersections, barely six blocks long. But for a visitor, it is a living, breathing education in Shanghai cuisine, a style distinguished by its thick savory sauces spiked with sugar and soy sauce.
~ Evan Osnos
I love anchovies in sauces, but on their own, they're repellent: their lurid pink bodies spook me out.
~ Sophie Dahl
I need savory sauces, stews and pastas. I can't live without pastas. My butt, you can tell I like to eat.
~ Debi Mazar
My last supper would be a charcuterie smorgasbord with every kind of meat, and sauces to dip them in.
~ Kelis
Tabasco and other hot sauces, for instance, will render infected oysters safer for human consumption; at least they kill microorganisms in the test tube. Spices, then, were not merely a luxury in medieval Europe but also a necessity, as their market value testified.
~ David S. Landes
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Experience, which plays such an important part in culinary work, is nowhere so necessary as in the preparation of sauces, for not only must the latter flatter the palate, but they must also very in savour, consistence, and viscosity, in accordance with the dishes they accompany.
~ Auguste Escoffier
If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Lime juice makes things taste fresher. I use it for drinks, salsas, relishes, soups, and sauces. You want some give to your limes - firmness means the inside is dry - and they'll stay softer longer if you don't refrigerate them.
~ Bobby Flay
The key to sauces is having patience. I'm not a patient woman, but I learned with sauces that you have to get everything on a slow roll and layer the flavors. That's where you get robust tastes: it starts one way and ends another.
~ Kelis
Fresh egg pasta is traditionally served in the north of Italy with butter, cream and rich meat sauces, whereas dried pasta is more at home with the tomato- and olive oil-based ones of the south.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
Though hot sauce preferences are personal, I'm pretty open to all styles. All except stunt sauces, that is - you know, sauces that are primarily designed to test your machismo.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
Cranberries are an ultra healthy fruit, but cranberry sauces are often so sugared down that it eliminates all their healthy benefits.
~ Harley Pasternak
Different hot sauces fulfill different needs, and I wouldn't want anyone to live in a world in which each fridge held only one bottle.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce or in beer with paprika.
~ Jim Himes
The trouble with some cooking is that the real flavours get cancelled out by the wine, cream, and butter sauces.
~ Kate O'Mara
There were no ready-made sauces, except for the slowly fermented chilli bean paste; we mixed them ourselves from the essential seasonings: sugar, vinegar, soy sauce and sesame paste in various combinations.
~ Fuchsia Dunlop
There were twelve dishes of lamb cooked in different rich sauces, with a monster bowl of strange oddments, which I imagine also belonged to the private life of a sheep, floating in rich gravy.
~ Rosita Forbes
When it comes to politics and women, you have to taste all the sauces, but you must never let either one or the other give you indigestion.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Many spicy condiments blend into fiery sameness, and even the ones that don't hold back on heat often offer little flavor aside from burn. Yet occasionally, a condiment comes along that's like a black hole, compressing physics-defying amounts of flavor in a tiny package. Such is the case with Auria's Kitchen sambal sauces.
~ Chris Morocco
What profession doesn't make mistakes? Cooks cover their errors with sauces; architects, with ivy; and doctors cover theirs with sod.
~ Sharyn McCrumb
Moeller came to AFB from Frito-Lay, where his job was to design, well, powdered flavor coatings for edible extruded shapes. "There are," he allows, "a lot of parallels." A Cheeto without its powdered coating has almost no flavor.* Likewise, the sauces on processed convenience meals are basically palatants for humans.
~ Mary Roach
When it comes to store-bought sauces, it takes a lot to impress me.
~ Chris Morocco