Bee Wilson Quotes

Food for me has to pop, and at Spice Market, the food really pops.

My cooking is simply ingredients plus umami.

Yum-O! I say this if something is so good that 'yum' just isn't enough of an exclamation. The accent is on the 'O' as in, 'Oh! That is so good!'

What I want to do is produce really delicious food. I want it to look nice, because when you see food you should want to eat it. You shouldn't be saying, 'Oh my goodness, isn't the chef clever, he can weave the Eiffel Tower out of carrot sticks.'

My favourite word? I think, delicious, because it sounds so delicious. You say it, and you just wanna eat a chocolate bar.

It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

Food should flirt with the palette. If the food doesn't flirt with your palette, then it's not fun enough.

First and foremost, food needs to be delicious. It should pop and explode with flavor. Food should please all the senses.

Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.

The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colours.

Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.

No one eats pretty.

I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting.

Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.

Haggis is delicious. It is wonderful. It's spicy, it's tasty, and you get vegetarian haggis as well.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

I'd rather have a good food - lots and lots of different varieties of good foods - than search for something perfect.

One of my favorite things to read in the 'Observer' is the restaurant review by Jay Rayner. I love reading about these restaurants that I won't ever have the time to go to.

Turkey burgers receive a fair amount of disparagement, and it's not unfounded.

I like eating yummy things.

I love food so much. I love cheese and champagne and salads, fries, yum.

How do you say 'delicious' in Cuban?

I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity.