Cooking Quotes - Page 2

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.

In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.

Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.

A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

You take romance - I'll take Jell-O.

Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.

Indeed, stock is everything in cooking. Without it, nothing can be done.

I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.

An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

He receives comfort like cold porridge.

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.

Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your time. Take a long time. Move slowly and deliberately and with great attention.

You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!

I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.