Quotes About Ingredients

I've always believed consumers have a right to know what's in their food.

I think people know that I love food, but maybe people don't know that I cook a lot.

I'm trying to learn how to cook.

I'm a simple cook, and there's a lot I don't eat. But food is important. It translates so easily into pleasure.

I'm quite happy with something foodie or cookbooks - I love cookbooks.

Cooking is chemistry, really.

Chemistry was my college interest. Cooking is about chemistry.

I'm a rather crude cook.

Food that's served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside.

I think the thing about cooking from tins for me that I really enjoyed was... the convenience of it, the slight entertainment side of it. Just the surprise of being able to crack open a couple of tins, pour them into a pan, and 15 minutes later you've got a fantastic dinner on the table.

I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.

It's quite true to say that if you work with marvellous fresh ingredients, the simplest dish is taken to another level.

I'm surprised by the talent I find all over. There are always new chefs who propose many interesting new ideas, new ways of looking at ingredients.

I enjoy watching talented cooks bringing together ingredients into a fabulous dish.

even those foodstuffs without which life cannot be supported need their pickles and spices.

She kept the wish to herself, as she should have, and simply blew out the candle.I clapped and whistled and then dove into my own cupcake, dying to know how my creations tasted. And seeing as I'd done the hard work—frosting and decorating—I felt like I could take credit and call them my creations. All Cassie had done was get the ingredients, come up with the recipe, and do all the measuring and mixing.

Gluten is found in wheat barley, rye, spelt, oats, and kamut and holds bread together and makes it rise.

Our philosophy is that if it was grown on a plant, eat it. If it was made in a plant, leave it on the shelf.

Egg yolks also contain choline and B vitamins.

How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue...and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake? Where does the glue go?

Oh, my sainted aunt! Don't mention that disgusting stuff in front of me! Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

Crocodile tongues!" he cried. "One thousand long slimy crocodile tongues boiled up in the skull of a dead witch for twenty days and nights with the eyeballs of a lizard! Add the fingers of a young monkey, the gizzard of a pig, the beak of a green parrot, the juice of a porcupine, and three spoonfuls of sugar. Stew for another week, and then let the moon do the rest!

It's not that easy. You can make omelet from eggs, but not eggs from omelet.

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