food seasoning Quotes

People under-salt their food, and they think it's bland, but salt brings out flavor.

You don't need Montreal steak seasoning on everything.

My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.

My two essential ingredients are chilies, any kind, dried or fresh; and acid, whether it's citrus - lemon, lime, yuzu - or vinegars. Food has to pop.

If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.

Salt is the only product that changes cuisine. There's a big difference between food that has salt and food without it. If you don't believe that, ask people who can't eat salt.

I think there's a tendency to over-jack and over-umami food these days.

The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. The next best vegetable is the jalapeno pepper. It has the virtue of turning salads into practical jokes.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

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

Salt has a greater impact on flavor than any other ingredient. Learn to use it well, and food will taste good.

A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for Friends; and when the Family dines alone, the fore or hind Quarter will makea reasonable Dish; and seasoned with a little Pepper or Salt, will be very good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter.

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.