Masanobu Fukuoka Quotes

The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.

I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.

I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.

If it tastes really good, and it's funky, it's funkalicous. If the guy making it is funky, he's funkintacious.

I love it when a few simple ingredients come together on a plate, and I think, 'Wow, that's a dish.'

I can make a delicious lasagna.

All great chefs have two things in common. First, they respect nature as the true artist, and they are just cooks. Second, everything that they do is an extension of them as a person.

Food, like most things, is best when left to its own simple beauty.

[Bachelors'] approach to gastronomy is basically sexual, since few of them under seventy-nine will bother to produce a good meal unless it is for a pretty woman.

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

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

I have had, in my time, memorable meals of scrambled eggs with fresh truffles, scrambled eggs with caviar and other glamorous things, but to me, there are few things as magnificent as scrambled eggs, pure and simple, perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned.

A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

I like to cook for my friends. It is an act of love because in cooking you can create so many plates and recipes, if you know how to - otherwise you make a mess - but I like it because it's like a ceremony. You cook for your friends and after, you drink wine and play cards.

Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too.

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.

She's just trying to make sure Anthony gets a good meal - Antonio.

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

I definitely write about things that are universal, that everyone can identify with. You're supposed to write about things you're passionate about and I guess I am a foodie. I do love food and it's kind of like I'm an eccentric observationalist guy. To make it kind of universal, I try a lot of different things. When I first started writing this, I was like, 'No food.' Then, you know, it just always goes there.

Eating is one of the most important aspects of living. I like indulging. I like to eat one food at a time, to savor each individual thing.