Wolfgang Puck Quotes

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.

If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.

I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I try to use bacon and pork products whenever it can.

Salt is one of the flavors that makes food taste good - salt, sugar and fat. So it's a natural thing for all chefs and cooks to add salt, because it enhances the flavor of the food. If you go out to eat, I guarantee you're going to be eating a lot of salted foods that you are going to have no idea.

If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu.

Never be tempted by water. The water tap should be sealed at lunchtime. If, for example, a sauce goes wrong, adding water doesn't help at all; one only achieves a taste of dishwater.

Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.

You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good.

I think the basic thing that home cooks can learn how to do is just season properly... If the home cook realized how little salt they use compared to what's needed, it would make their food taste better.

I didn't choose to like Chik-Fil-A - I was born this way.

A splash of red wine vinegar can pull things together like a pinch of salt.

Inexpensive and forgiving, kosher salt is fantastic for everyday cooking and tastes pure.

My biggest nightmare is that something doesn't have enough salt.

I like butter with my popcorn.

I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.

I don't like to cook, but I like to eat popcorn with butter and salt.

Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.

Fat gives things flavor.

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

I love garlic, and I use it often.

It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

I like a pickled cucumber. A regular cucumber I'm not so interested in.

It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive.

Felting Phil (taking all of his chips down to the felt on the table). I loved beating him and then hed go over to the couch and sulk, staring at the ceiling.