Gastronomic Satisfaction Quotes

It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of my colon is that important compared to pleasure. As a chef, I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist. I’m in the pleasure business …. My responsibility is to give you the most delicious tomato that I can afford, given the circumstances, and maybe increase the likelihood that you get laid after dinner.

The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and warble while chewing pressed beef smeared with diabolical mustard. Nobody can exult aloud while ungluing from his teeth a quivering tapioca pudding.

Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

The first dish pleaseth all.

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.