Grant Achatz Quotes

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

I do believe that using fragrance is a plus. It's one of our senses and it's be a waste not to use our sense of smell. I also think smell is something that tells a lot about a person.

Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.

We humans will never know how meadows or mountains smell, but deer and horses and pigs do. Bando sniffs deeply and shakes his head. We were left out when it comes to smelling things, he says. I would love to be able to smell a mountain and follow my nose to it.

People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.

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.

Things taste less salty when they're cool.

Stevie Wonder always smells so good... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!

As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vomitting in some persons.

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

I judge people on how they smell, not how they look.

Smells are so powerful and evocative, sometimes stronger than visual cues.

I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.

Smell is incredibly important and sensual; it communicates who you are.

If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.

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

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

Taste is an emotion.

There are some things I can just smell. It's like a sixth sense." "Well, actually, that would be one of the five.

No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells.

A wine goes in my mouth, and I just see it. I see it in three dimensions. The textures. The flavours. The smells. They jump out at me. When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.