Flavor Combinations Quotes

We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate.

Being a chef never seems like a job, it becomes a true passion.

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

When you do a menu at a restaurant, you have to be the engineer of that menu. It has to be a crowd-pleaser.

I'm more comfortable weaving Indian flavors into American classics.

As a chef, if I can taste something, I can basically figure out what's in it.

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

I enjoy watching talented cooks bringing together ingredients into a fabulous dish.

[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

What strikes me, the more I cook, is that the best recipes are ones where the basic anatomy is so sound it will survive multiple adjustments. When a recipe has good bones, you can change the seasoning, double the garlic, swap lime for lemon, and it still turns out delicious.

Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create.

I would probably never have learned to cook.

There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen

The DNA of Rojak is found in its textures.

Good cheese needs good companions.

Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of the highest degree of accuracy. One of its numerous processes is to make multitudes of observations, and out of these to select only those which agree, or very nearly agree. If a hundred observations are made, the cook must be very unhappy if he cannot pick out fifteen or twenty which will do for serving up.

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

For me cooking is a pleasure, it's a relaxing thing.

Dragon fruit is very subtle, very delicate. So you want to be careful not to kill it with things that have very strong flavor.

...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.