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Quotes About Flavor

My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes.
~ Alton Brown
In Australia, Chinese food culture has imparted flavour, dimension and excitement to the way we eat.
~ Melissa Leong
Every dish doesn't have to be showy, and every dish doesn't have to slap you in the face with technique.
~ Wylie Dufresne
I like food to be really simple but have a lot of technique all the same.
~ Alex Guarnaschelli
I like to abide by the seasons and let the natural flavor in food speak for itself. I use quick cooking techniques of high heat with very little fat, such as quick saute or wok stir-frying.
~ Cat Cora
I love paan. I have been having it since I was a teenager.
~ Jackie Shroff
The biggest hits - be they Coca-Cola or Doritos - owe their success to complex formulas that pique the taste buds enough to be alluring but don't have a distinct, overriding single flavor that tells the brain to stop eating.
~ Michael Moss
I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.
~ Aarti Sequeira
If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar.
~ Paul Prudhomme
The bread is so that you may never know hunger," she said. "The salt is so that your marriage will always have flavor. The wine is so you will always have something to celebrate." Faz raised his glass. His eyes watered. "May you have many years together, and may the Lord bless you with happiness and prosperity. Salute!" They raised their glasses
~ Robert Dugoni
prepackaged slices or the Supermarket swiss (which has the texture but no where near the flavor, of rubber gloves)
~ Robert Farrar Capon
All salt and no finesse makes Jack a dull cook.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
The onion is the truffle of the poor.
~ Robert J. Courtine
The olfactory receptors in our noses can differentiate among thousands of different odors and contribute an estimated 80 percent of flavor.
~ Robert L. Wolke
The world of French crime films is a particular place, informed by the French love for Hollywood film noir, a genre they identified and named. But the great French noirs of the 1950s are not copies of Hollywood; instead, they have a particularly French flavor.
~ Roger Ebert
people are much more interesting when they have a bit of a bite. We
~ Leah Stewart
If someone were to ask about your taste in fine dining and you were to say, "I lean toward food served with vivid adjectives," you'd probably get a pretty strange look;
~ Leonard Mlodinow
Preaching is the primary means whereby the miracle of Cana continues, as Jesus turns our life from water — tasteless, colorless, odorless — into homemade vintage wine, known for its vibrant flavor, vivid sparkle, and alluring aroma.
~ Leonard Sweet
However, this bottle was not marked 'poison,' so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very
~ Lewis Carroll
it had a sort of mixed flavor of cherry-tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffy and hot buttered toast
~ Lewis Carroll
Then I added a dash of salt, which counteracts the natural bitterness of coffee
~ Linda Howard
Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
~ Philip Yancey
Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.
~ Don Kardong
I do like beer, but lately I've started drinking non-alcoholic beer and I like the taste of it and I don't get the alcohol, so that's a good alternative also.
~ Mike Ditka