Quotes About Flavor

Two words to improve any dish. Ba, Con

My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and pie.

Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.

Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.

Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.

There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: Is it good? Does it give pleasure?

It's some chopped liver. That's Jewish soul food.

Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.

This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled.

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.

Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.

It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.

Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible.

Make [food] simple and let things taste of what they are.

I prefer more spicy food to your Italian to be fair.

But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.

Mustard's no good without roast beef.

I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

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