Martin Yan Quotes

For me, the good food starts with good product.

Patience is the secret to good food.

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.

If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.

But since you're asking me, I'll tell you my opinion: all cornbread is authentic, as long as it's good, hot, and made with love and fresh ingredients.

Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.

I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil.

It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.

Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.

I love really good food and I don't ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food.

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?'

I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.

I believe a good chicken breast, if made well, is the best thing ever.

And cooking is about balance and harmony.

When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.

Do you guys have any raw garlic?

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

The thing to do is to buy and sell.

Making food is a wonderful way to spend a Friday night.

I found that preparation is everything when you cook.

I think food is getting lighter and healthier because people eat out so often. It's about quality ingredients because that is the root of good food.