Food Quotes by Marcella Hazan

Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of…

— Marcella Hazan

[On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.

— Marcella Hazan

“Once the pasta is sauced, serve it promptly, inviting your guests and family to put off talking and start eating.”

— Marcella Hazan

The Italian comes to his table with the same open heart with which a child falls into his mother's arms, with the same easy…

— Marcella Hazan

I don't cook 'concepts.' I use my head, but I cook from the heart, I cook for flavor.

— Marcella Hazan

Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved…

— Marcella Hazan

I need to smell its smells, to hear its sounds, to see food in a pot that simmers, bubbles, sizzles. I enjoy the physical…

— Marcella Hazan

What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world.

— Marcella Hazan

In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate manipulation and…

— Marcella Hazan

80% of Italian cooking is done in a sauté pan.

— Marcella Hazan

Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.

— Marcella Hazan

“The explanation is that I consider cooking to be an act of love. I do enjoy the craft of cooking, of course, otherwise I…

— Marcella Hazan