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

Mike Myers

Funny, Witty, Humorous

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

Carlo Petrini

Nature, Food, Responsibility

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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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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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New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

Poppy Z. Brite

New Orleans, Cajuns, Creole

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Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to think that the notoriously bad cooking of the English was an example to the contrary, and that the English cook the way they do because, through sheer technical deficiency, they had not been able to master the art of cooking. I have discovered to my stupefaction that the English cook that way because that is the way they like it.

Waverley Root

Country, Art, Food

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Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.

Emmanuel des Essarts

Food, Giving, Cooking

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All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

John Gunther

Happiness, Happy, Food

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The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

Julia Child

Attitude, Block, Real

FaceBook post by Julia Child from May 15, 2012

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