There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.
Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail.
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
The DNA of Rojak is found in its textures.
My grandmother had mango trees in her backyard when I was a child. So it's always been an ingredient that I'm familiar with. It can be used in so many ways. My kids absolutely love it for a snack or in a savory dish.
Quality is the one absolutely necessary ingredient of all the most successful companies in the world.
Indeed, stock is everything in cooking. Without it, nothing can be done.
The secret ingredient to every meal is love. And also garlic.
What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
And don't forget music - music in the kitchen is an essential ingredient!
Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.
The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredient.
Halva works brilliantly in ice-cream.
Chocolate is one of the backbones of the pastry kitchen. It is one of the most important ingredients in our pantry. It is very versatile, it is complex, and it is extremely temperamental.
There are really only so many foods and so many ways you can prepare them.
In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.
Salt is so, so, so important. If that's the one thing everyone remembers, every step of the way, whenever I cook, I try to incorporate salt.
Soy sauce is really a multi-purpose seasoning.
