Harold McGee Quotes

• An understanding of what food is and how cooking works does no violence to the art of cuisine, destroys no delightful mystery. Instead, the mystery expands from matters of expertise and taste to encompass the hidden patterns and wonderful coincidences of nature.

  Harold McGee

  Art, Food, Understanding

  Harold McGee (2003). “On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen”, Scribner

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• It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a scoop of ice cream can be a Proustian draft of youth's innocence and energy and possibility, while a morsel of fine cheese is a rich meditation on maturity, the fulfillment of possibility, the way of all flesh.

  Harold McGee

  Maturity, Ice Cream, Meditation

  Harold McGee (2007). “On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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