Food Pairing Quotes

Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer me.

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

Everybody tries so hard to pair wines with Indian food, and it has never been a natural marriage.

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

Good-quality nuts, toasted in a little butter and salt, make a magical addition to many salads.

Cheese and jam are really nice. Cheese and apple as well. Cheese and grapes are good.

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

I need a little sugar in my bowl and a little hot dog in my roll.

[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.

I love mayonnaise, but mustard is a must when you're doing the Impossible Burger.

...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.

Good cheese needs good companions.

I enjoy wine collecting and great food.

People think I'm consuming all the time, based on my Instagram feed, but I know how to eat and how to pair. I might post the heaviest osso bucco of all time, but I'm not showing the carrots I'm having on the side rather than having a whole other big dish of something.

When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course.

That would be cool if you could eat a good food with a bad food and the good food would cover for the bad food when it got to your stomach. Like you could eat a carrot with an onion ring and they would travel down to your stomach, then they would get there, and the carrot would say, It's cool, he's with me.

Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.

They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.

Red wine is a great accompaniment to meat.

This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.

I always think, after the second glass of wine, you should be putting something in your stomach.

Wild garlic and crab is a revelatory pairing.

If I had a hotdog in my hand, he would've had tomato ketchup on his face.