19th century Quote by Marie-Antoine Careme

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

— Julia Child

“Cooking was a passion and sometimes a serious art form, to be shared with a select few.”

— Isabel Vincent

“I suddenly discovered that cooking was a rich and layered and endlessly fascinating subject. The best way to describe it is to say that…

— Julia Child

When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because…

— Daniel Boulud

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

“Culinary historians looking back at the first decades of the twenty-first century will be blessed with vast quantities of material to study, thanks to…

— Laura Shapiro

“If debates about beauty in nineteenth-century France were fierce, that was because beauty was seen to matter. This was a world of political revolutions,…

— Elizabeth Prettejohn

“ah yes, you like to cook, don't you? well, i used to. you need real dedication. fresh ingredients, a discerning palate, an eye for…

— Haruki Murakami

You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.

— Tom Colicchio

“Today, of course, popular culture is on a culinary binge; and so much personal writing is now devoted to gazing back upon the kitchen…

— Laura Shapiro

“A curious fact surfaces in reading these Elizabethan cookbooks. The English did not thicken their sauces with flour. According to some scholars, it was…

— Francine Segan

The French peasant cuisine is at the basis of the culinary art. By this I mean it is composed of honest elements that la…

— Alexandre Dumaine