Cuisine Quotes · Page 4

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

— Marcel Boulestin

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

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

— Alex Atala

I'm really happy to see Filipino cuisine starting to really take hold outside of the Pinoy community.

— Anthony Bourdain

From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

— Daniel Boulud

I'd say that my identity is really a culinary identity, so the way I relate to my national heritage is through its…

— Princess Tatiana of Greece and Denmark

You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.

— Jacques Chirac

All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me…

— Charlie Trotter

It's fun to pick a cuisine and say I'm going to research Ethiopian food, and see what it's all about. You find…

— Cat Cora

When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried…

— Pat Conroy

I never really knew what fine cuisine was when I was a little boy in Canada. For me, Italian food was 'Kraft…

— Sebastian Bach

Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So many times…

— Mario Batali

Larousse Gastronomique has always been the first and last word on classic European techniques and recipes. I love that it has expanded…

— Marcus Samuelsson

Quite a lot of what we normally think of as human culture doesn't fit some definition. What are the values behind cuisine,…

— Hal Whitehead

I love Indian food - it's my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It's really erotic;…

— Joe Perry

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

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

— Dule Hill

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

— Anthony Bourdain

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

— Joel Robuchon

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

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

— Tiya Sircar

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

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

— Fran Lebowitz

A cook's job in my opinion is to be creative and push the boundaries of their cuisine and never stop experimenting.

— Ching He Huang

I don't like nouvelle cuisine, too small bits. I like to have a nice wine, nice pasta, tomatoes.

— Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.

— Elizabeth Olsen

You cannot get an influence from the cuisine of a country if you don't understand it. You've got to study it.

— Ferran Adria

Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.

— Charlie Trotter

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

The game minus slow bowling is like bread without butter or, even worse, French cuisine without the sauces.

— Trevor Bailey

Salt is the only product that changes cuisine. There's a big difference between food that has salt and food without it. If…

— Ferran Adria

My German heritage, it's through food. Growing up in Switzerland, the thing that I remember the most is the food. And so…

— Princess Tatiana of Greece and Denmark

A great introduction to cultures is their cuisine. It not only reflects their evolution, but also their beliefs and traditions.

— Vikas Khanna

Indian food beats everything else, in my book. The kinds of cuisine our country offers is just amazing. Every single dish has…

— Farhan Akhtar

I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.

— Larry Fitzgerald

It is critical to have a sound understanding of traditional culinary principles before attempting to push boundaries in cuisine. Larousse Gastronomique helps…

— Grant Achatz

Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call…

— Emmanuel des Essarts

I think that the Japanese - and I do love Japanese cuisine and adore Japanese food culture - I think that they're…

— David Chang

I went to L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical…

— Carla Hall