Culinary Quote by Alton Brown Download Open image “Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.” — Alton Brown ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culinary Sound Technique Useless
I honestly feel the term 'molecular gastronomy' is mostly misunderstood. It is not a style of cooking. Rather, it is a philosophy which encourages… — Alvin Leung Copy Share Image
A molecular gastronomist is really just someone who explores the world of science and food. — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
I think cooks that are just interested in molecular gastronomy are cooks that will never be chefs. — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
Right now, I am doing the reverse of molecular gastronomy. I'm working with scientists to find ingredients and produce that are proven to be… — Joel Robuchon Copy Share Image
Gastronomy is the greatest form of therapy that anyone can be exposed to. — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
True gastronomy is making the most of what is available, however modest. — Claudia Roden Copy Share Image
[Bachelors'] approach to gastronomy is basically sexual, since few of them under seventy-nine will bother to produce a good meal unless it is for… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Classical cooking and molecular gastronomy should remain separate...you can mix two styles and get fusion; any more and you just get confusion. — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
It is critical to have a sound understanding of traditional culinary principles before attempting to push boundaries in cuisine. Larousse Gastronomique helps me execute… — Grant Achatz Copy Share Image
If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Larousse Gastronomique has always been the first and last word on classic European techniques and recipes. I love that it has expanded its reach… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry.… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I'm not a slave driver or a yeller. I was yelled at in kitchens and other workplaces. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.' — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements. — Marcel Boulestin Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people in this world: the ones who don't cook out of and have NEVER cooked out of THE I… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image