gastronomic creativity Quotes

The roots of creativity of cooking are hungry people trying to figure out how to take something that's not particularly fresh or tender and transform it into it something delicious that everyone will love.

What can you say about Guy's cooking that hasn't been printed on a packet of cigarettes?

Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.

What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.

Food doesn't exist, but can only be invented. And reinvented.

Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.

Did you know that the Jews invented sushi? That's right - two Jews bought a restaurant with no kitchen.

People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding fresh lime juice to scalloped potatoes try to understand that there must be a reason for this.

I couldn't go any higher with three Michelin stars. I mastered my craft. I'm still learning and picking up ideas.

The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.

Let's say you have some chicken stock and you're making soup, and out of everything you can taste, some of the things you put in and some of the things you don't. So you start out with an African spice then you hear some Brazilian music, so then it changes. Then you hear Jamaican and it changes again. And the result depends on how much of each spice you put into it. Now, I've been putting in spices since I started playing professionally in 1945.