The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken. — Julia Child
to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world. — Marie-Antoine Careme
In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection. — Curnonsky
Great cooking is about being inspired by the simple things around you - fresh markets, various spices. It doesn't necessarily have to look fancy. — G. Garvin
Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food. — Craig Claiborne
Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.
English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness. — Auguste Escoffier
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. — Julia Child
Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements. — Marcel Boulestin
The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language
barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart. — Samuel Chamberlain
Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. — Craig Claiborne
Every morning the cuisinier must start again at zero, with nothing on the stove. That is what real cuisine is all about. — Fernand Point
Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible. — Doug Larson
Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye. — Gordon Ramsay
The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced. — Fernand Point
Cooking demands attention, patience, and above all, a respect for the gifts of the earth. It is a form of worship, a way of giving thanks. — Judith Jones
Short French Cooking Quotes
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. — Harriet Van Horne
...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing. — Julia Child
There's always something fishy about the French. — Noel Coward
The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it. — James Beard
When you cook, you never stop learning.
That's the fascination of it all. — James Beard
In France, I learned about wine and cheese. — Walter Wager
Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff. — Sally Schneider
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. — Elsa Schiaparelli
Are you casting asparagus on my cooking? — Curly Howard
Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it. — Nigel Slater
French Cooking Image Quotes
The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for steak to coo.
Cooking Quotes
Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook. — Chinua Achebe
Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine. — Marco Pierre White
Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. — Unknown Author
Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks. — Charlemagne
If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe. — Paul Bocuse
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. — E. O. Wilson
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. — Adelle Davis
Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good, Tell the homies I'm in heaven, and they ain't got hoods. Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook, Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke. — Tupac Shakur
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. — William Shakespeare
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook. — Auren Hoffman
French Quotes
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. French translation — Marcel Pagnol
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. — Mother Teresa
My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal. — Julius Evola
The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a country, France, that left us with certain habits. For us, being successful in life, being happy, meant trying to live as they do in France, like the richest of the French. — Thomas Sankara
Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no 'Nigerians' in the same sense as there are 'English,' 'Welsh,' or 'French.' The word 'Nigerian' is merely a distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria and those who do not. — Obafemi Awolowo
It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good grace, to be our equals. — Jean-Paul Marat
In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English? — Marlene Dietrich
I do a real analysis of who actually owns things - it’s the British…the Dutch…then it’s the Arabs…then it’s the French…then it’s the Jews…and then, on down the line. — Alex Jones
Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. — Mark Twain
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants. — Karl Lagerfeld
The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied. — Francois FeNelon
God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. — Thomas Deloney
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. — Benjamin Franklin
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach. — Athenaeus
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined. — Isabella Beeton
Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! — Thomas Carlyle
Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness. — John Ruskin
I tell people all the time, you have to be in love with that pot. You have to put all your love in that pot. If you're in a hurry,just eat your sandwich and go. Don't even start cooking, because you can't do anything well in a hurry. I love food. I love serving people. I love satisfying people. — Leah Chase
Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages. — Alexis Soyer
French Culture Quotes
I see myself as an ambassador of French heritage and French culture. — Bernard Arnault
The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America. — Mireille Guiliano
Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist. — Masaharu Morimoto
French girls still have the Jane Birkin culture. You can go just like that, without makeup, without managing your hair. — Emmanuelle Alt
It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French. — James A. Baldwin
France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything. — Adam Michnik
Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures. — Bob Cousy
Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture. — John Robert Colombo
French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries. — Kristin Scott Thomas
All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely. — Lawrence Durrell
French Wine Quotes
Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine. — Robin Leach
The older I get, the better I used to be. — Lee Trevino
I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, 'There are no good wines, only good bottles.' — Gerald Asher
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. — Andre Simon
Wine to me is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. — Robert Mondavi
If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good? — Cardinal Richelieu
Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary. — Ernest Hemingway
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. — John Keats
Cuisine Quotes
Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra. — Paul Bocuse
The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill. — Paul Bocuse
Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness. — Auguste Escoffier
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
New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun. — Poppy Z. Brite
Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature. — Carlo Petrini
Through my work and travels I have been lucky enough to have been exposed to various eclectic cuisine running the gamut from small local cafes to iconic five-star restaurants. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
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
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
Chefs Cooking Quotes
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. — Thomas Keller
When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony. — Marie-Antoine Careme
I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater. — Nigella Lawson
Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart. — Sayings
One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food — Edna Lewis
I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting. — Andy Rooney
I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it. — Todd English
Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life. — Daniel Boulud
I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs. — Wilhelm II
Food is life, life is food. If you don't like my approach you are welcome to go down to McDonalds. — Keith Floyd
A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do. — P. J. O'Rourke
I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of 'Everyday Italian,' and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It's very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta. — Giada De Laurentiis
I can't stand people that do not take food seriously. — Oscar Wilde
I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook. — Robert Mondavi
I love cooking. I like to make lasagna - its authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue. — Sullivan Stapleton
The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it. — Mario Batali
I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is. — Mario Batali
There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell. — David Byrne
I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season. — Anne Burrell
French Bread Quotes
I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their bread is pain, and their pancake is crepe. Pain and poison and crap. That's what they have every day. — Xiaolu Guo
French women love bread and would never consider a life without carbs. — Mireille Guiliano
My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years. — Tom Brady
Sometimes it's just 'Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.' I'm not going to lie to you - I deal with that temptation every single day, many times. — Richard Simmons
WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread "per capita" of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable. — Ambrose Bierce
I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping. — Helen Fielding
She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread. — Rebecca Wells
I like L.A. It's like a mini break. For a writer, it's hilarious. Like the food. Where I come from, we eat chip sandwiches: white bread, butter, tomato catsup and big fat french fries. It's delicious. Here, you order a creme caramel and the waiter says, 'You know, that contains dairy. — Helen Fielding
My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes. — Andrea Fay Friedman
Dip a slice of bread in batter. That's September: yellow, gold, soft and sticky. Fry the bread. Now you have October: chewier, drier, streaked with browns. The day in question fell somewhere in the middle of the french toast process. — Tom Robbins
I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead. — P.D.Q. Bach
The only true language in the world is a kiss. — Alfred De Musset
French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic. — Bernard Pivot
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background. — David Crystal
What makes international cinema so interesting is that each territory has its own sensibility. When you look at an Indian or French film, there's a certain flavor. And even though the language is different, if the film is successful, it has something very common and understandable. — Wong Kar-wai
One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. — Mads Mikkelsen
In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. — Mark Twain
German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful. — Paul Celan
French is the language that turns dirt into romance. — Stephen King
I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing. — Ja Rule
Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful. — M. F. K. Fisher
Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries. — Fran Lebowitz
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. — Jeff Smith
God made only water, but man made wine. — Victor Hugo
Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the orchestration and accompaniment of a fine meal, and enable a good chef or cook to demonstrate his talent. — Curnonsky
Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes. — Norman Douglas
Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, for no very good reason. — Julie Powell
Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford. — Julia Child
Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding the best there is, whether simply or luxurious. The you savor it, analyze it, and discuss it with your companions, and you compare it with other experiences. — Julia Child
As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible. — Mario Batali
Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore. — Thomas Keller
Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. Im crazy about L.A. because at the farmers market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms. — Benjamin Millepied
I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner. — Anthony Bourdain
I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking. — Robert Stack
Chef: Any cook who swears in French. — Henry Beard
Even if I'm gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito. — Gabrielle Reece
Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish. — Julia Child
If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup. — Louis Diat
Forget that New Orleans is actually a little like the Combat Zone with French cooking, it still happens to be part of the great state of Louisiana where people play the political game the same way it's played in Lebanon. The place is one layer after another of tribes, factions and at least a million laughs. — A. J. Liebling
I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humor (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome); I go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Larousse Gastronomique is a veritable dictionary of cooking terms for the French kitchen. If a chef were allowed only one book, this would have to be it. — Mario Batali
My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That’s just not my style... I cook from the soul. — Aaron Sanchez
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. — Laurence Sterne
The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup. — Rebecca West
I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties. — Morena Baccarin
The French cook; we open tins. — John Galsworthy
Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook. — Julia Child
Food: Part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories. — Beverley Baxter
The French don't know how to cook breakfast. — Prince Philip
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste. — Jonathan Swift
The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served plain. The first course could include a dollop of Italian in 1492, but not Spanish spice or French sauce or too much Indian corn. Nothing too filling or fancy ahead of the turkey and pumpkin pie, just the way Grandma used to cook it. — Tony Horwitz
Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just as traditional French cooking does not use seaweed or raw fish, so neoclassical models do not make assumptions derived from psychology, anthropology, or sociology. I disagree with any rules that limit the nature of the ingredients in economic models. — George Akerlof
HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English. — Bertrand Russell
I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff. — Angelina Jolie
My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef. — Jacques Pepin
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