Food Evolution Quotes

You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food?

Anywhere in the world, there is royal food, and there is commoner food. Essentially, eat at the restaurant or eat on the street. But Indian food evolved in three spaces. Home kitchens were a big space for food evolution, and we have never given them enough credit.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.

Today we take New England clam chowder as something traditional that makes our roots as American cooking very solid, with a lot of foundation. But the first person who decided to mix potatoes and clams and bacon and cream, in his own way 100 to 200 years ago, was a modernist.

Food is ever-changing and ever moving forward and getting more and more complex.

You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.

I'm just trying to cook good food, and I'm not afraid to do whatever I need to do to keep the food evolving.

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

My eating mantra is, you should eat what your ancestors ate. It's true that the quality of vegetables, fruits and meat is of no comparison from then to now, but in principle the staple is easily digestible if it was part of your evolution lineage.

Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.

I didn't know why dessert was invented or what function it was meant to perform. Raising livestock and the harvesting of grains are ancient activities, but when did humankind decide it also needed creme brulee?

Comfort food is absolutely moving upscale.

Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.