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James Beard Quotes about Food

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The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.

James Beard
Food, Cooking, Secret

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

James Beard
Food, Beard, Bread
"The Soup & Bread Cookbook: More Than 100 Seasonal Pairings for Simple, Satisfying Meals". Book by Beatrice Ojakangas, p. 7, 2013.

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

James Beard
Food, Home Cooking, Gourmet

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

James Beard
Drinking, Food, Thinking

Grilling, broiling, barbecuing - whatever you want to call it - is an art, not just a matter of building a pyre and throwing on a piece of meat as a sacrifice to the gods of the stomach.

James Beard
Art, Food, Sacrifice

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

James Beard
Believe, Food, Adversity
James Beard (2015). “Delights and Prejudices”, p.67, Open Road Media

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

James Beard
Food, Simple, Cooking
James Beard (2015). “The New James Beard”, p.533, Open Road Media

The roe of the Russian sturgeon has probably been present at more important international affairs than have all the Russian dignitaries of history combined. This seemingly simple article of diet has taken its place in the world along with pearls, sables, old silver, and Cellini cups.

James Beard
Food, Taken, Simple
James Beard (2015). “Hors d'Oeuvre and Canapés”, p.43, Open Road Media

The kitchen, reasonably enough, was the scene of my first gastronomic adventure. I was on all fours. I crawled into the vegetable bin, settled on a giant onion and ate it, skin and all. It must have marked me for life, for I have never ceased to love the hearty flavor of raw onions.

James Beard
Food, Heart, Adventure
James Beard (2015). “Delights and Prejudices”, p.8, Open Road Media

I've long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs. There are few sights that appeal to me more than the streaks of lean and fat in a good side of bacon, or the lovely round of pinkish meat framed in delicate white fat that is Canadian bacon. Nothing is quite as intoxicating as the smell of bacon frying in the morning, save perhaps the smell of coffee brewing.

James Beard
Morning, Coffee, Food

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