Cooking Quote by Michael Pollan

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

— Julia Child

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

In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and…

— Julia Child

I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the…

— Julia Child

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

— Antoni Porowski

In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These days, French…

— Joel Robuchon

Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.

— Gertrude Stein

France and Britain have large culinary differences, but one thing they do share is a relatively low tolerance for modernist cooking.

— John Lanchester

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

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

In Paris and later in Marseille, I was surrounded by some of the best food in the world, and I had an enthusiastic audience…

— Julia Child

“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