Tom Junod Quotes

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.

Patience is the secret to good food.

I'm a keen experimenter in the kitchen. With food, not with anything else!

Food is an international language, an expression of love.

Salt is so, so, so important. If that's the one thing everyone remembers, every step of the way, whenever I cook, I try to incorporate salt.

And cooking is about balance and harmony.

I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine.

I love restaurants, and I love cooking.

Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them, not all of them.

You know that old saying, 'A way to a man's heart is through his stomach' - that's me.

The main thing I look for in a recipe is taste, which is different from caterers and restaurants, who first ask 'How does it look?'

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.

I love food, I love eating.

Food was a labor of love you felt by cooking it and eating it.

My cooking is simply ingredients plus umami.

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

If my cuisine were to be defined by just one taste, it would be that of subtle, aromatic, extra-virgin olive oil.

I love cookbooks for completely different reasons. I love 'The Harry's Bar Cookbook' and Marco-Pierre White's 'White Heat' for their feel. For pure learning, Gray Kunz wrote a great cookbook, 'The Elements of Taste', published in 2001. The first time I read Charlie Trotter's, the Chicago chef's first cookbook, I was blown away.

I've always liked food, and I've always been interested in cooking and stuff like that.

And, I believe that one of the most loving things you can do is prepare a meal for someone you love. None of which I know how to do!

I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.