Cooking Quote by John Lanchester

Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.

— Gertrude Stein

England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French.

— Eva Green

There's so much that can be learned from French cooking, especially really traditional, more modest meals.

— Antoni Porowski

I just think our British cuisine and the different influences we pull together make it special when it comes to food.

— Dick Strawbridge

I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but…

— Daniel Boulud

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.

— Robert Stack

French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we…

— Michael Pollan

To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the ancienne cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as the hills.…

— Raymond Sokolov

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

— Julia Child

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 classic Mediterranean…

— Alain Ducasse

In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable…

— Sebastian Faulks

“The French approach to food is characteristic; they bring to their consideration of the table the same appreciation, respect, intelligence and lively interest that…

— Alice B. Toklas