Believe Quote by Jacques Torres

In the same way that I've no desire to live in earlier historical periods, I never touch historical recipes. Most historical cooking is detestable.

— David Starkey

Even just a few spices or ethnic condiments that you can keep in your pantry can turn your mundane dishes into a culinary masterpiece.

— Marcus Samuelsson

I make my own chocolate, I grow my own beans, and now I have something about the history of chocolate. I feel I try…

— Jacques Torres

Indian spices can find a place in any cuisine. It's just a matter of opening your mind and palate to new flavors.

— Maneet Chauhan

In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Spices, of course, are essential.

— Marcus Samuelsson

My mom started a tradition where she makes these amazing pumpkin bars, almost like a pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting, but its not…

— Katie Holmes

I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.

— Aarti Sequeira

Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.

— Alain Ducasse

I have high respect for chocolate.

— Amaury Guichon

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

“Long after all the chocolates were eaten, and the cousins had gone, we kept the chocolate-box in the linen-drawer in the dining-room sideboard, waiting…

— Alice Munro