Jacques Torres Quotes

I'm a chocoholic. I need chocolate every day, like one little piece of Droste. I'm not into milk chocolate. But I don't like it when its super bitter. I need a sweet factor in there. I go for the 75 percent - that's good enough for me.

I love chocolate. I like milk and dark chocolate, but definitely not white.

I prefer dark chocolate. I like French over Belgian... Valrhona is the best.

I don't like candy bars. I eat the big rectangular bars. You know - anything between 85 and 50 percent cocoa.

I like all sorts of chocolate. Milk chocolate, dark chocolate, anything.

I love Hershey's chocolate. I feel the same about chocolate as I do about wine. Connoisseurs like dark chocolate and they like nasty wine that doesn't taste good to me. I don't get it!

If you buy chocolate with too high of a cocoa content, you might not like it because it doesn't have enough sugar.

Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.

I adore dark chocolate.

I love dark chocolate. I love it.

I particularly like Hershey's chocolate, the kind which has almonds in it.

I'm a bit of a chocolate snob, actually, since I used to work at a chocolate shop in England when I was really young. And since then, it's been hard for me to eat cheap chocolate.

I crave sugar, but I try to get sugar from fruit as opposed to getting it from candy, cakes, or bread. Sometimes I slip, and I'll have a piece of chocolate, but dark chocolate is better than milk.

I love dark chocolate, 70 percent and up.

You take dark chocolate, you mix it with white milk, and it becomes a delicious drink. That is the chocolate I am talking about.

I love chocolate. I love chocolate ice cream. I love chocolate candy. The darker the better.

You take the best ingredients - the best cocoa beans - and you process them in the best traditional way, and you have the best chocolate.

I love dark chocolate - I could eat it 'til I puke.

You can't be a grown-up woman and not like chocolate.

Dark chocolate-covered blueberries are my favorite sweet.

Ottolenghi sells lots of delicious sweet things, but my daily addiction is their unbelievable dark chocolate salted caramel biscuits. They're the best things in the world - I go through half a packet every night. I bring them out after pudding at dinner parties.

If I snack, it's generally hummus on Rice-Thins or Nut-Thins crackers and some guacamole. If I need something sweet, I have dark chocolate chips stashed in my freezer, and I'll eat a few to satisfy my sweet tooth - but only if there aren't any cinnamon gummy bears around. I'm a sucker for those!

A little dark chocolate in small amounts often helps lift me out of those blue moments. When I walk into my favorite store on Union Street in San Francisco that sells high-quality chocolates from around the world, I feel like, well, a kid in a candy store.

Even a small amount of dark chocolate can be exquisitely satisfying if you meditate on it.

I always keep a little bit of Lindt or Ghirardelli milk chocolate for when I'm stuck in traffic. And I'm a big fan of Mentos during long plane rides.