Heston Blumenthal Quotes

The service of food is to nurture, to please, to nourish.

I got a fascination with food.

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.

Some of the best cooks that I've cooked with, whether it's in New York or Chicago or even here in Philadelphia, are actually Ecuadorians. And there's something about their palates that really just inspires me, and has a really deep sense of flavor.

Eating is a necessity but a pleasure as well.

I've loved food since I was little.

The older I get, the more interested in good meals I am.

Straight up, Oreos, sodas, chips, salsa dips, egg white omelets, yogurts, breads, ketchups, mustards, barbecue sauce, frozen pizzas, hot pockets, ice cream, all these things that you eat in your normal life - I think if chefs got more involved in that, then it could be better. Because we're the ones that know flavor.

The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.

In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans.

Between the ages of six and nine, my palette was taking shape as well as my identity as a chef. It was then that I learned the difference between salty, sweet, sour and even spicy.

As a restaurateur, my palate is one of my most important tools.

Cooking and eating are among the most important ways we weave days into lives.

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!

I love a nice cooking show. It's as aesthetically pleasing as any other thing that tempts the senses, I suppose.

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.

Growing up, my mom had a catering business. I used to help her pretty early on and loved doing it. My mom is an amazing cook, and she helped me cultivate a love for food. She taught me that food can be beautiful. We eat not just for survival, but we survive to eat. It's part of who I am.

Food is not just eating energy. It's an experience.

I am driven by ingredients. My Italian heritage and French training inevitably poke through as well, guiding my techniques.

I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.

The old saying, 'An army marches on its stomach' has never been more true than in film and television. If it's good, cheerful, and exciting and full of great yummy things, then everyone does really well. If it's the opposite, it's very disappointing.

I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.