Knute Nelson Quotes

I find that often, room service menus are highly condensed. They tend to be a little bit fast food-oriented, even at the finest hotels.

I think it is over-rated. Whenever I go to an Italian restaurant, I never get the tiramisu.

I'm a really good cook. I bake a lot. I cook dinner most nights. I cook everything from Italian food to Mexican food. But if I'm going to some place and it's a potluck, I'm always the one to bring dessert!

Truthfully, I despise hotels. I've had such better experiences staying at people's houses and guesthouses; it's so much more comfortable and homey.

Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra.

I have a constant sweet tooth, so I like anything from the bakery, like cupcakes, cookies.

A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.

I'd rather have a good food - lots and lots of different varieties of good foods - than search for something perfect.

I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.

You can't beat New York for food.

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.

We have good food in Los Angeles, but it's not as good as Atlanta food.

A lot of Americans say the food in England sucks. I don't think the food in England sucks - the food is great - but I've got to say, the Americans have got the dining out experience nailed down.

I look at pastries and cakes, tarts and pies. My body craves sugar, always craves sugar. Years of alcohalism and the high level of sugar in alcohal created the craving, which I feed with candy and soda.

I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber, indigestible pseudo-sausages that millions of Americans now eat, and they leaked the same flabby, puerile mustard. Their single point of difference lay in the fact that their covers were honest German Wecke made of wheat-flour baked to crispiness, and not the soggy rolls prevailing today, of ground acorns, plaster-of-Paris, flecks of bath-sponge, and atmospheric air all compact.

Pumpkin pie is a living symbol of mediocrity. The best pumpkin pie you ever ate wasn't all that much different from the worst pumpkin pie you ever ate.

A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.

A motel is where you give up good dollars for bad quarters.

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 like to serve chocolate cake, because it doesn't show the dirt.

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

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

I have a lovely room and bath in the hotel. It's a little inconvenient, they're in two separate buildings!