Culinary Taste Quotes

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.

I like alligator meat. Tastes like chicken.

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

People who have come to appreciate well-sourced and well-cooked food refuse to pay too much for food that they wouldn't want to pay anything for.

I admire my fellow judge Paul Hollywood enormously, though we often argue. He believes presentation and uniformity are paramount; I'm more interested in taste. I don't mind if one bun is smaller than the others, or if there's a little pastry cracking, though I don't want a soggy bottom.

I love all sorts of food, chocolate especially. I eat well, but I like the odd Chinese, like anyone!

Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to think that the notoriously bad cooking of the English was an example to the contrary, and that the English cook the way they do because, through sheer technical deficiency, they had not been able to master the art of cooking. I have discovered to my stupefaction that the English cook that way because that is the way they like it.

Since I got my new liver, some of my tastes have changed. There are certain things I don't like anymore. I loved Indian food before but not now.

I love eggs fried over medium.

I love so many cheeses. I like them hard and soft. I like cream cheese; I like cottage cheese... I'm a true Midwesterner.

I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.

[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.

I'm big on tomato mozzarella salad. That's my favorite all-time food.

I basically love anything that comes in a hot dog bun... except hot dogs.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

I used to be so embarrassed by salsa; I wasn't into it.

To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.

I'm not really a food connoisseur.

Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want.