Gastronomic Delights Quotes

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

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too.

Nashville is coming up to be an amazing foodie city.

I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love...

What I like to do when I go out is enjoy my friends and the food around it. If we have to stop and give five minutes to the chef, then I'm down with that. But if the chef has to interrupt every course to tell us how important this new revolution that's happening is, then I'm not so much interested in that.

I spend more time in the kitchen than I have in the dining room, for obvious reasons, however, I just want to sit and indulge.

Is it OK to admit to being slightly obsessed with the TV programme 'Great British Menu?'

I'm always tweeting about food and things that I've made.

Goteborg used to be a not very cool place to live. The culture centered around shrimp and bingo. Bands played Copenhagen and Stockholm and skipped Goteborg.

The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.

I have had, in my time, memorable meals of scrambled eggs with fresh truffles, scrambled eggs with caviar and other glamorous things, but to me, there are few things as magnificent as scrambled eggs, pure and simple, perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned.

[Bachelors'] approach to gastronomy is basically sexual, since few of them under seventy-nine will bother to produce a good meal unless it is for a pretty woman.

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'

There's nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.

Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else’s memories.

When I go to a fine dining restaurant, I'm excited and I do expect to find proposals to wake my senses.

I've always been one of those people who romanticized cooking, but the few attempts I'd made in my life resulted in friends' contorted faces as they desperately tried to say something nice about the "dish" they were eating.

Food nourishes you, brings people together, and I feel that anybody can bond over food.

Thank you to Italy. That is a crazy country but beautiful.

The bread and the pastry, the cheeses and wine, and the sugar go into the Supper of the lamb because we do. It is our love that brings the city home. It is I grant you, an incautious and extravagant hope. But only outlandish hopes can make themselves at home.

A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

Your recipe, darling, is so tasty, and you sure can stir your pot.

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.