Cuisine Quotes · Page 3

I am a serious food lover and Peruvian cuisine is one of the best in the world.

— Helena Christensen

“A culinary triumph: the ingenious use of food as an offensive weapon.”

— James Hamilton-Paterson

Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I believe that cuisine is the most important link between nature and culture.

— Alex Atala

Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!

— Mason Cooley

Chinese cuisine has so much diversity, the area it covers is so great and so is the taste.

— Alvin Leung

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

— Marcel Boulestin

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

— Carlo Petrini

When you talk about avant-garde cuisine, the surprise factor is really important. For example, I love looking at blogs and the photos,…

— Ferran Adria

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food…

— Mike Colter

Cooking in Japan is regarded as an art, like music or painting. Every dish has a reason, including the garnishes. This is…

— Rick Stein

I'm a big foodie. Hyderabadi cuisine is amazing, and the kind of mutton dishes available at some restaurants in the Old City…

— Imtiaz Ali

I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring…

— Ferran Adria

I've seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is…

— Anthony Bourdain

La volaille est pour la cuisine ce qu'est la toile pour les peintres. Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Given that southern Italian pasta-making doesn't incorporate the richness of egg yolks like they do in the north, even the basic hero…

— Melissa Leong

In a country like India, we don't want to put everyone in one big mixture. We have a different language, culture and…

— Kabir Bedi

My cooking philosophy, what I try to do, is to make a cuisine where the produce and the product shines, compared to…

— Joel Robuchon

All of these concoctions that we think are Mexican, are in no way reflective of the deep, incredibly old, complex and sophisticated…

— Anthony Bourdain

I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston. My…

— Dule Hill

Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative…

— Waverley Root

Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and…

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Sri Lanka's interpretation of western cuisine is pretty diabolical. Sri Lankan food itself is ace, however, and they bloody love a buffet.…

— Romesh Ranganathan

“I cooked with so many of the greats: Tom Colicchio, Eric Ripert, Wylie Dufresne, Grant Achatz. Rick Bayless taught me not one…

— Stacey Ballis

My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family.

— Jourdan Dunn

Turkish cuisine is, to my mind, one of the most exciting and accomplished in the world.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.

— Paul Bocuse

Plastic shoes are to the shoe world what fast food is to fine cuisine.

— Mimi Pond

I want to expand my cuisine to this country. I love America. I have been here 22 years.

— Masaharu Morimoto

Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.

— Anthony Bourdain

I abstain from trying Punjabi cuisine because it is extra oily.

— Sonu Sood

Fernand Point's philosophy instilled what cuisine is all about: generosity and hugeness of heart.

— Charlie Trotter

You don't want to eat haute cuisine all the time; it's not healthy.

— Mike Patton

I think New York has the most diverse and best quality representation of so many different cuisines at all levels.

— Bobby Flay

Cuisine is not invariable like a Codex formula. But one must guard against tampering with the essential bases.

— Fernand Point

I like eating Mughlai, Chinese and Italian cuisines, but Chinese cuisine is one which I can have any day, any time!

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French.

— Eva Green

“What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”

— Anonymous

The guitar is like a cuisine and you can't expect people to eat the same thing all the time.

— Richard Lloyd