Ingredient Substitutions Quotes

What strikes me, the more I cook, is that the best recipes are ones where the basic anatomy is so sound it will survive multiple adjustments. When a recipe has good bones, you can change the seasoning, double the garlic, swap lime for lemon, and it still turns out delicious.

A cookery book should be there for inspiration. Recipes should be a guideline, and they shouldn't be cast in stone.

You have to respect the culture you are cooking in, yes, but you have to respect the palate you are cooking for, too, and you have to adjust to that palate.

I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.

Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.

A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.

Everyone could use instructions on every aspect of cooking: pantry, storage, refrigeration, cooking, what to buy. Everyone that I come into contact with could use help.

A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.

I am a noncook, although I'm very interested and have a large collection of cookbooks.

When I left restaurants, I had to learn to be a home cook.

Always look for the best ingredients, treat the food you cook with respect, always read the entire recipe first, be organized, and have fun.

Whenever I want to know how to cook something, I can't ask one chef - I have to ask six.

Food attracts a kind of nerdishness like any other sort of passion, and 'Cooks' Questions' is for those people who want to find out more.

Since truffle oil and caviar aren't always in the budget, learning to tweak and enhance just a few ingredients and flavor combinations can help you transform those ordinary ingredients into the extraordinary!