Quotes About Ingredients

I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.

Just because food is served fast doesn't mean it has to be made with cheap raw ingredients, highly processed with preservatives and fillers and stabilizers and artificial colors and flavors.

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.

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

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

It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients.

Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.

According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.

The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.

One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.

Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.

You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.

Foods to eliminate or minimize include items that are canned, frozen, microwaved, or highly processed. Focus on eating a variety of fresh and freshly-prepared food.

We as consumers really do have the right to know what's in our food.

Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power of words which somehow will develop its qualities.

No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.

Avoid food products with more than five ingredients; with ingredients you can't pronounce.

Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.

I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.

Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers.

I like to know exactly what's being put into my food.

I can't deliver lines, but I can talk about food all night long.