Sherry Yard Quotes

My two great treats in life are baked beans and vanilla ice-cream.

I'll never turn down a red velvet cupcake.

Nothing beats the original Krispy Kreme.

A good fruit cake is good fruit cake. A bad one is really bad.

Butter, cream, and bacon. That's such a great foundation right there.

When you have that deep kind of hunger that is part longing, what's better to eat than the best apple pie? Or the best potato salad and guacamole? Or the best deviled eggs and crab cakes and white chocolate raspberry pie?

For baked goods where lightness is a prized attribute - almost all cakes, some cookies - it's important to start with room-temperature butter.

Red velvet cake is my absolute favorite. It has to be an actual slice of cake, not a cupcake; there's more surface area, so the icing ratio is higher.

I love roast chicken, juicy summer tomatoes, and carrot cake slathered with tangy cream-cheese frosting.

Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake.

When I was a kid, I loved having muffins and cupcakes and I still like them with coffee.

Baking is therapy.

There's a couple of foods that if you see me eat them in a contest, you can tell I like them. Grilled cheese sandwiches, chicken wings, ribs, hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza. I mean, those, they go down like I was made to eat them.

Once you have a chocolate-chip cookie with whole-wheat flour, you never go back.

Steaming offers no opportunity for either seasoning or developing the brown, crisp textures that sauteing and roasting afford.

All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes

Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef’s ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish. American women should themselves be boiled in water.

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.

Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?

Pie can't compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, it's a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, someone's drunk in the kitchen.

I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.

I think a rotisserie is like a really morbid ferris wheel for chickens. It’s a strange piece of machinery . . . We will take the chicken, kill it, impale it, and then rotate it. And I’ll be damned if I’m not hungry! Because spinning chicken carcasses make my mouth water! I like dizzy chicken. With a side of potatoes of some sort.

There's an oatmeal cookie in there. I see no reason for the existence of oatmeal, particularly in cookies.

As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?