Culinary Quotes by Curnonsky

A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific.

— Curnonsky

Cuisine is when things taste like themselves.

— Curnonsky

Bouillabaisse, this golden soup, this incomparable golden soup which embodies and concentrates all the aromas of our shores and which permeates, like an ecstasy,…

— Curnonsky

In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.

— Curnonsky

Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are

— Curnonsky

In great quantity, madame. In great quantity.

— Curnonsky

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…

— Curnonsky

Make [food] simple and let things taste of what they are.

— Curnonsky