Danny Meyer Quotes

Food can be a material, and you can use it as a way to project concepts.

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.

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

I hate 'foodie' because it's cute, like pretty much all diminutives associated with eating. 'Veggies,' 'sammies,' 'parm.' I eat food, and I cook it: it's for eating, preferably with friends, and I don't make a fetish out of it.

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

I lived my whole life in the kitchen. Not only that, but it's the passion, it's the love for cooking and food. It's dictated my entire life - every aspect of it.

I think D.C. has always been very, very vibrant for food. Like Boston in a way. Boston and D.C. were really the two cities that were the most active with their local chefs and their local food scene.

I got a fascination with food.

I've always been fascinated by chefs and the worlds of chefs - what they do is incredibly cinematic.

I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them on Twitter, and send them to friends. I treat menus like classic literature, refusing to skip even one word. I read the description of every item, regardless of whether or not I'm interested in eating it.

Restaurants and chefs have become followed by such a broad swath of the public, in a way that used to be reserved for sports stars, movie stars, and theater actors. Restaurants are in the firmament of today's common culture.

I studied cooking in Spain after college.

Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.

'Tampopo's amazing. I think it's an absolutely fantastic movie, but I don't think it captures for me the meaning of food.

Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.

I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking.

For me, cooking is the only way I know how to show my love. That's why I am so passionate about food. It's such a love language.

Restaurants are a much easier way to introduce Americans to a culture than getting them into museums.

I don't cook, and I don't care to, but Gabrielle Hamilton made me realize that food is about love and connection. And she has had a hell of an interesting life.

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers.

Like all disciplines where information is shared and work contributes to their advancement, cuisine should be no different. The kitchen is our life, and we are available to share. We want to share our work so that future generations can cook and create a more efficient, easy and unquestionable quality.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education.