Food Expectations Quotes

Being a cook, there's always pressure - not for your ego but for people to love your food.

The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

I'm a vegetarian who doesn't like eggplant parmesan. Isn't that awful? I'm also sick of portobello mushrooms. People are like, 'A vegetarian's coming to dinner,' so they serve those.

I think animal crackers make people think that all animals taste the same.

I don't think people should be fed mesclun salad and chicken breast. My grandmother would serve grits and oxtail stew at a formal dinner, and if you didn't like it, well then you ate more beans or you went home and ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

I get cross with foodies who think hospital food should be Michelin-star and caterers can fall into this trap.

Chefs get sucked into the trap of 'fine dining' because some guides make it central to their ratings system and because some customers have been trained to focus their expectations on the trappings and not on the food. It's all a gigantic waste of energy.