Food Pairings Quotes

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

He is the cheese to my macaroni.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

The trouble with some cooking is that the real flavours get cancelled out by the wine, cream, and butter sauces.

Be aware of what you cook tomatoes with. The high acid content of the tomato slows down the cooking process of some other foods. Dried beans cooked with tomatoes added to the pot can take up to 20 percent more cooking time than beans without tomatoes added.

You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.

When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there's a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense.

Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under a cow.

Once you know the fundamentals of cooking, then you don't need to follow a recipe - you just know what herbs go well or what meats, or what combination of what goes together, and then you can just branch out from there. But if there's something specific that I want to make, I work on the recipe and tweak it to my own.

As far as I'm concerned, everything's ham and jam.