Cuisine Quotes

• A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

  Charlie Trotter

  Food, Together, Musician

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• I believe that cuisine is the most important link between nature and culture.

  Alex Atala

  Believe, Important, Culture

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• Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

  Marcel Boulestin

  Art, Food, Home Cooking

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• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Food, Sleep

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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• The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Art, Literature, Good Things

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• The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.

  Paul Bocuse

  Food, Mean, Cooking

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• A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Happiness, Food, Home Cooking

  1954 A Shocking Life, ch.21.

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• My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

  Mike Myers

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Cuisine is when things taste like themselves.

  Curnonsky

  Food, Cooking, Taste

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• As far as cuisine is concerned one must read everything, see everything, hear everything, try everything, observe everything, in order to retain in the end, just a little bit.

  Fernand Point

  Order, Trying, Littles

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• Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.

  Ferran Adria

  Thinking, Blue, Sky

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• I think the great Mexican cuisine is dying because there are fast foods now competing, because there are supermarkets, and supermarkets can't afford to keep in stock a lot of these very perishable products that are used for fine Mexican cooking. Women are working and real Mexican cooking requires enormous amounts of time.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Real, Food, Thinking

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• Fernand Point's philosophy instilled what cuisine is all about: generosity and hugeness of heart.

  Charlie Trotter

  Philosophy, Heart, Generosity

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• Every morning the cuisinier must start again at zero, with nothing on the stove. That is what real cuisine is all about.

  Fernand Point

  Morning, Zero, Real

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• Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.

  Charlie Trotter

  Food, Cooking, Way

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• Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.

  Carlo Petrini

  Nature, Food, Responsibility

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• After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, Thanksgiving, Food

  1893 Lady Caroline. A Woman of No Importance, act 2.

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• Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

  Harriet Van Horne

  Love, Food, Memorable

  1956 Vogue, Oct.

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• The English contribution to world cuisine: the chip.

  John Cleese

  Funny, Sarcastic, World

  "Fictional character: Otto". "A Fish Called Wanda", 1988.

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• Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community’s vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from healthy local agriculture.

  Rick Bayless

  Art, Spring, Agriculture

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• In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and the cooking for cooking's sake. You can talk with a concierge or police officer about food in France as a general rule. It is not the general rule here. Classical cuisine, which I hope we are going back to, means certain ways of doing things and certain ways of not doing things. If you know classical French cooking you can do anything. If you don't know the basics, you turn out slop.

  Julia Child

  Sports, Art, Mean

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• I think New York has the most diverse and best quality representation of so many different cuisines at all levels.

  Bobby Flay

  New York, Thinking, Quality

  "New York restaurants are a world of good". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. May 31, 2011.

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• The image foreigners have of French cuisine is fattening and very fancy food. But it's not true - French food isn't just rich. The word "healthy" doesn't exist in French. We have many, many words, but not that one. To me, healthy means paying close attention to feeding people.

  Alain Ducasse

  Mean, People, Healthy

  "The Eat Sheet: How Alain Ducasse Pulled Off the Other Princely Wedding of the Year (Exclusive)". Interview with Rebecca Leffler, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 21, 2011.

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• Because normally with Western cuisine, you'll serve vegetables separate from the meat, so kids will eat the meat and never touch the vegetables.

  Martin Yan

  Kids, Vegetables, Meat

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• New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  New Orleans, Cajuns, Creole

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