190 quotes found
“If God had created celery, it would only have two stalks, because that's the most that almost any recipe ever calls for.”
“When a couple came to class together, it meant something else entirely - food as a solution, a diversion, or, occasionally, a playground.”
“Decadent cooks go one step further and make sculptures of the food itself. If life is to be spent in pursuit of the extravagant, the extreme, the grotesque, the bizarre, then one's diet should refl...”
“I thought we were going to take a 20-mule team out to the Grand Canyon and get a Bunsen burner and a bow and arrow, and whatever you can catch you cook. And its gotta be gourmet and it better look ...”
“It is difficult to ascertain what role these articles play in marginalizing the vegetarian experience when there are so many more pressing issues that confront individuals who might otherwise choos...”
“I am a miserable cook but an extremely talented eater.”
“Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice.”
“To my faithful readers, because a book is like a piethe only thing more satisfying than cooking up the story is knowing that somebody might be out there eating it up with a spoon.”
“The kernels of wheat entered the aperture virtually in single file, as if passing between a thumb and an index finger. To mill any faster risked overheating the stone, which in turn risked damaging...”
“The quest for an ever-whiter shade of bread, which goes all the way back to the Greeks and Romans, is a parable about the folly of human ingenuity -- about how our species can sometimes be too smar...”
“The bones and shells and peels of things are where a lot of their goodness resides. It's no more or less lamb for being meat or bone; it's no more or less pea for being pea or pod. Grappa is made f...”
“Perhaps the most important thing I came to understand during my decade at HoJo's was that Americans had extremely open palates compared to French diners. They were willing to try items that lay out...”
“Food keeps us alive, as we all know. Nourishment allows us to grow and be healthy. But good cooking takes us beyond survival and into the realms of culture and pleasure.”
“You can still live with grace and wisdom thanks partly to the many people who write about how to do it and perhaps talk overmuch about riboflavin and economy, and partly to your own innate sense of...”
“Food is what I love, and how I communicate love, and how I calm myself.”
“Don't you just love the idea of cooking flowers? I imagine them bursting into bloom, right in the pan.”
“Don't just live your life, set it on fire!”
“There exists a bastard cuisine that is too often assumed to be real French cooking.”
“Nowadays films and television are what I like to call "Microwave Media". I like mine in the oven, giving the production time to simmer; get the juices flowing, and cooked to perfection. And that ta...”
“The idea is to make the ingredients sing, not a grand opera, but a jolly chanson.”
