Lee Radziwill Quotes

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

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.

There are about 700 flavors that you can smell, but only five you can taste. A lot of times what you're perceiving as flavor has nothing to do with palette, but it's more to do with scents.

With cooking, there's always the tangible and the intangible: that which is in the domain of sentiment, of the individual.

The main thing I look for in a recipe is taste, which is different from caterers and restaurants, who first ask 'How does it look?'

My cooking is simply ingredients plus umami.

'Morsel' is a perfect word. Forming those six letters on the lips and tongue prompts an instantaneous physiological reaction. The mouth waters. The lips purse.

If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.

Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.

taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.

You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.

Taste is so much more important than fashion.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Food is not just eating energy. It's an experience.

Salt's relationship to flavor is multidimensional: It has its own particular taste, and it both balances and enhances the flavor of other ingredients.

Food is like music. You've got two kinds, good and bad.

Food is an international language, an expression of love.