A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.
— Thomas Keller
Fulfilling Culinary Love quotations
People who love to eat are always the best people.

The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.


As the days grow short, some faces grow long.
But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again.
As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.
The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.
Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.
Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods;
and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes Only two things that money can't buy That's true love and home grown tomatoes.
Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.
There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.

From the moment I stepped foot in Music City I have had a love affair with the people and burgeoning culinary scene. This city's long, highly-respected cultural history, coupled with the recent growth and development is inspiring. I could not be happier with my decision and I'm truly excited to call Nashville my home.
All sorrows are less with bread.
Young chefs, famous chefs, home cooks, and everyone who loves food and cooking-we all depend on Larousse Gastronomique. It is the only culinary encyclopedia that is always up-to-date.

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
American Danish can be doughy, heavy, sticky, tasting of prunes and is usually wrapped in cellophane. Danish Danish is light, crisp, buttery and often tastes of marzipan or raisins; it is seldom wrapped in anything but loving care.
Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.

America knows nothing of food, love, or art.
How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.
Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.

How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and roses clambering over a simple arbor.
What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick!
There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.

All millionaires love a baked apple.
Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.
Eggs are very much like small boys. If you overheat them or over beat them, they will turn on you and no amount of future love will right the wrong.

...if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.
Ive never gone to culinary school, but I do love cooking.
Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt.
That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!

I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking.
One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe.
I fell in love with food because of my mother.
So, I will definitely be sharing and expanding more recipes from my culture (as well as many other cultures), and will be sharing recipes that I have experienced from my whole culinary life.
Larousse Gastronomique has always been the first and last word on classic European techniques and recipes. I love that it has expanded its reach to cover world cuisines and modern culinary innovations, making it more indispensable than ever.
There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Our poor friend Lord Byron is quite corrupted by living among these people, and in fact, is going on in a way not worthy of him.
Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said - Come, let us all go live at Paris: the French love good eating - they are all gourmands - we shall rank high.