I don't come from any great culinary tradition - I'm from…

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were…

— Alton Brown

The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a…

— Laura Esquivel

Not having a New York culinary tradition, far from being limiting, it's an opportunity to create freely.

— Wylie Dufresne

“Regardless of the recent hunger for handcrafted foods, they remain a niche market within the grocery store. America simply didn’t have many centuries during…

— Michael Ruhlman

In each restaurant, I develop a different culinary sensibility. In Paris, I'm more classic, because that's what customers like. In Monaco, it's classic Mediterranean…

— Alain Ducasse

Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by…

— Peter Ackroyd

Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear,…

— Nina Berberova

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities…

— Emmanuel des Essarts

There are times when born hollandaise heads, as well as nouveaux turbot freaks and recherche escargotphiles alike crave the saignet abundance of a New…

— Gael Greene

Recipes don't work unless you use your heart!

— Dylan Jones

My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah,…

— Emeril Lagasse

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…

— Mark Twain

Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two…

— Craig Claiborne

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the…

— Benjamin Franklin