flavor discovery Quotes

After 10 years of eating vegetarian, I tried my boyfriend's. I was overwhelmed. It was orgasmic.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.

There's nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.

My most memorable meal was with my parents at Joel Robuchon's Restaurant Jamin in Paris. It was Christmas 1982, and the flavors - from cauliflower and caviar to crab and tomato - astounded me. It was the first time I remember thinking that I would like to really learn how to cook.

I really don't limit myself in any way. I just search for great flavors and marriages wherever they come from.

Between the ages of six and nine, my palette was taking shape as well as my identity as a chef. It was then that I learned the difference between salty, sweet, sour and even spicy.

It's always good to update your food. It's always exciting to learn and update new flavor profiles.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

Taste everything, eat nothing.

If you do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so.

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

I learned at a young age what chasing flavors meant, and I've been doing that my whole life.

When you taste something delicious, ask for the recipe! Or offer to trade a recipe!

If you have never tasted a braised vegetable, you'll find it is a revelation.

Cooking is like fashion. Always, I like to try to change. If I'm traveling in a different country - to Australia, the Bahamas, Budapest, Moscow - and I see a new ingredient, I like to try it in a new dish.