Culinary Preference Quotes

I'm not a greasy food guy. I don't eat like that.

When I was younger, my dad would cook, and I would never really have it, unless it was something like spaghetti. I would only like what my mom made - macaroni and cheese or something like that. But after I reached a certain age, I think it was 11, I realized I liked his cooking.

My learning from my travels is that taste is objective. If a thing is tasty, it's universally tasty. Or, just not.

I'm always going on about how I could just eat Japanese food and nothing else until the day I die.

I prefer New York style pizza.

I cook anything but chitlins.

Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?

There's a new dividing line in olives: between those who prefer Nocellara to all other varieties, and the people who have never tasted them.

I love key lime pie, although it's never made the proper way.

I'm not a big steak guy.

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

Ramen in L.A. is much better than ramen in San Francisco. That's just a fact.

No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.

When I am up in Paris then the restaurant which has remained my favourite for the past decade is Guy Savoy. The menu is huge, sophisticated and very creative but I keep to simple choices.

I prefer cooking to baking. Baking, to me, is very precise, and it's about perfection.

I'm a curry and rice girl.

If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.

I very much like potatoes.

I’ve long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs.

I'm a thigh-meat dude. Thigh is just the best meat - I don't get chicken breast. I think it's a publicity stunt that we've convinced people it's delicious.

It might seem strange to feast on Guinea pig, but Ecuadorians love to eat cuy. Personally, I think it's a phenomenal alternative to pork or chicken. High in protein, low in fat, cheap and easy to raise. Oh, and cuy tastes great, much like roast pig. You might call it a pet, but I prefer to call it dinner.

Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues.

I like eggs. My favorite way of cooking eggs is old school French.

You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.

I love any kind of food. I don't have a sweet tooth, but I love haleem.