Marie-Antoine Careme Quotes

• When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Food, Cooking, Intelligence

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• The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Art, Food, Numbers

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• I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Food, Eye, Order

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• The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.'

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Meals, Agents, Soup

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• to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  World, Chef, Century

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• Beef is the soul of cooking.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Cooking, Soul, Beef

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• My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Boys, Vegetables, Poor

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• Why should the Marquis de Cussy wage war on soup? I cannot understand a dinner without it. I hold soup to be the well beloved of the stomach.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  War, Dinner, Soup

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• ... the agent provocateur of a good dinner.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Food, Cooking, Agents

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