Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes

I do have very high customer service standards - I'd send back sushi because it's too fishy.

We have to get out there and explain that imperfect tastes just as good.

The old saying, 'An army marches on its stomach' has never been more true than in film and television. If it's good, cheerful, and exciting and full of great yummy things, then everyone does really well. If it's the opposite, it's very disappointing.

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I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It was the quality of these simple ingredients that made the occasion memorable. The eggs were so good that I am ashamed to say how many of them I consumed ....It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can be reasonably expected of it.

It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.

Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.

Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.

You walk into a restaurant when chefs are not there and it's different. The magic isn't there. Why pay top pounds when the chef is not in the house? I feel cheated. I don't mind paying big money for food but if I go to Paul Bocuse's restaurant I want Paul in the house.

A great dinner must include not only yummy food, but good conversation.

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,' said Brillat-Savarin, beginning an anecdote. 'What!' interrupted Rochebriant; 'eating dinner in a drawing-room?' 'I must beg you to observe, monsieur,' explained the great gastronome, 'that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before.'

I don't enjoy cooking when I'm high. And I don't want to be eating garbage because then I'll feel gross.

Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

Great food needed more than chefs; it needed gourmet diners.

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

I always have to have sweet and salty. I know some of you are going to say, "Oh, I tried dates. I hate them." That's probably because you had the ones that were on the shelf for three years. Go to some healthy place and get the fresh ones, and you will just love them. You'll start eating them and think they're so good.

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

Dinner theater is anti-culture.

Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last. And if sturgeon is of the second freshness, that means it is simply rotten.

I'm just eating really, really clean healthy foods.

Louisiana has the best food on the planet if you don't really ask too much about what you're eating.

Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.

I'm like it's - it's like taking out whatever you have in your fridge and putting it in a bowl and eating it.

I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff.