James Beard Quotes

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• When you cook, you never stop learning.
  That's the fascination of it all.

  James Beard

  Fascination, Cooks, Never Stop Learning

  James Beard (2015). “James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• Like the theater, offering food and hospitality to people is a matter of showmanship, and no matter how simple the performance, unless you do it well, with love and originality, you have a flop on your hands.

  James Beard

  Simple, Offering, Hands

  James Beard (2015). “Delights and Prejudices”, p.212, Open Road Media

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• The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.

  James Beard

  Cooking, Secret, Firsts

  James Beard, Amy Pastan, Peter Pastan (1986). “James Beard's theory & practice of good cooking in large print”, G K Hall & Co

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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.

  James Beard

  Food, Cooking, Secret

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• The only thing that will make a souffle fall is if it knows you're afraid of it.

  James Beard

  Fall, Beard, Souffle

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• 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.

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• If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.

  James Beard

  Choices, Meat, Pork

  James Beard (2015). “James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking”, p.96, Open Road Media

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• There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

  James Beard

  Use, Flavor, Waste

  James Beard (1949). “The fireside cook book: a complete guide to fine cooking for beginner and expert, containing 1217 recipes and over 400 color pictures”

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

  James Beard

  Food, Home Cooking, Gourmet

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• Goodness, how much there is to learn about food!

  James Beard

  Goodness

  James Beard (1995). “Love and Kisses and a Halo of Truffles: Letters from Helen Evans Brown”, p.142, Arcade Publishing

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• 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, Smell

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

  James Beard

  Drinking, Food, Thinking

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• Too few people understand a really good sandwich.

  James Beard

  People, Sandwiches

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• Good cheese needs good companions.

  James Beard

  Needs, Cheese, Companion

  James Beard (2015). “Hors d'Oeuvre and Canapés”, p.34, Open Road Media

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• I’m going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I’m going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember—it’s always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you’re on your own.

  James Beard

  Ideas, Secret, Trying

  James Beard (1974). “The best of Beard: great recipes from a great cook”

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• I'm really enamored of the potato in all its guises.

  James Beard

  Potatoes, Guise, Enamored

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• No vegetable exists which is not better slightly undercooked.

  James Beard

  Vegetables

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• 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

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• Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer me.

  James Beard

  Cheer, Perfect, Together

  James Beard (2011). “Beard On Bread”, p.33, Knopf

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• 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

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• Be simple. Be honest. Don't overcook and don't undercook, but it's better to undercook than overcook.

  James Beard

  Simple, Honest, Being Honest

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• It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

  James Beard

  Use, Waste, Ingredients

  James Beard (1949). “The fireside cook book: a complete guide to fine cooking for beginner and expert, containing 1217 recipes and over 400 color pictures”

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• Hands are our earliest tools. Cooking starts with the hands which are so sensitive that when they touch something they transmit messages to your brain about texture and temperature.

  James Beard

  Hands, Cooking, Brain

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• 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

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• I have had, in my time, memorable meals of scrambled eggs with fresh truffles, scrambled eggs with caviar and other glamorous things, but to me, there are few things as magnificent as scrambled eggs, pure and simple, perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned.

  James Beard

  Memorable, Simple, Eggs

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