Cuisine Quotes

213 quotes from 153 authors

A peasant kitchen shows how tiny ingredients can stretch into big nutrition, revealing clever tricks. Other voices treat cooking as an art that relies on instinct, not exact measurements, and point out how different regions—like Mumbai, Japan, and Mexican families—define their own flavors.

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The great tradition of Delhi can be seen through its cuisine.

Mohit Chauhan

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To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

Juvenal

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Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

Auguste Escoffier

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“I love children. Eating them, that is.”

Keith McGowan

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Soup is cuisines kindest course

Virginia Woolf

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I enjoy Indian cuisine a lot. It's delicious.

Stan Wawrinka

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Cuisine is when things taste like themselves.

Curnonsky

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The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

John Cleese

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

Alex Atala

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

Alvin Leung

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

Mason Cooley

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

Marcel Boulestin

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

Jourdan Dunn

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

Yotam Ottolenghi

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

Carlo Petrini

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

Paul Bocuse

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The design of a restaurant should embrace the identity of the chef, the nature of the cuisine, and the context of the…

David Rockwell

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Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur. English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

Auguste Escoffier

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Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that…

Mike Myers

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I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to…

Ted Allen

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The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too…

Daniel Boulud

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I didn't want to become a chocolatier among others, buying ready-to-use couverture. I wanted to take the same approach I follow in…

Alain Ducasse

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Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke.

Rene Redzepi

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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…

Rick Bayless

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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…

Alain Ducasse

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I like all kinds of food, but if I had to choose a favourite Indian cuisine, it would absolutely be Bengali! I…

Tiya Sircar

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Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size.…

Fran Lebowitz

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

Joel Robuchon

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

Anthony Bourdain

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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

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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

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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…

Waverley Root

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In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art…

Julia Child

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About 90 percent of all soy is genetically modified (GMO). Soy is also one of the top seven allergens, and is widely…

Gabriel Cousens

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“And bundles upon bundles of fresh ferny herbs in shades of pine green, pickle green and pistachio green-- a whole color chart…

Caroline Eden

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“The cooking was invigorating, joyous. For Julia, the cooking fulfilled the promises that Le Cordon Bleu had made but never kept. Where…

Bob Spitz

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“So what exactly is 'Nashville' food, anyway? Unlike the Low Country with its shrimp and grits, or even Memphis with its barbecue,…

Jennifer Justus

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“Caroline has laid out a beautiful spread, which is a combination of some of my favorite things that she has cooked, and…

Stacey Ballis

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“To begin with, she would focus on tried-and-true dishes that she loved to make and which she knew would turn a profit.…

Brian O'Reilly

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As for the house, it is scrubbed to the tiniest mousehole before Passover, to avoid such dangers as even a forgotten cake…

M. F. K. Fisher

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