Culinary Ingredient Quotes

I can't imagine Japanese food without dashi, a broth made with kelp and dried bonito flakes. It has the aroma of the sea, tinged with a subtle smokiness, and adds a very important, distinct flavor.

I couldn't live without butter. Butter is probably my single favourite food.

Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain.

Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.

Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.

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.

The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.

Chipotles to me are a one-of-a-kind pepper because they're smoked jalapenos, so they're fiery and they're smoky. It's good to use chipotles in salsas or soups or condiments - that works really well. To me, they always really pick up anything you put them in.

Salt is white and pure - there is something holy in salt.

It's easy to discount water's importance in the kitchen. After all, it has no flavor, and more often than not, it's left off ingredient lists, making it seem like an afterthought. Yet water is an essential element of almost everything we cook and eat, and it affects the flavor and texture of all our food.

Salt is an unusual food product because it is almost universal - all human beings need salt, and most choose to eat more than is necessary.

Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.

Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.

I bought some HP sauce the other day. It's costing me 6p a month for the next 2 years.

Yogurt sauce, as you may have noticed by now, is a regular presence in my recipes - that's because it has the ability to round up so many flavours and textures like no other component does.

Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.

Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.

The tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness.

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

Don't you think baby corns are scary? There's just something wrong about their midget bodies.