Home / Quotes / Quote by Auguste Escoffier

Quote by Auguste Escoffier

“So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.”

Quote by Auguste Escoffier

Author

Auguste Escoffier

Auguste Escoffier, a renowned French chef often hailed as the founder of modern French cuisine, was born on October 28, 1846, and passed away on February 12, 1935. His contributions to culinary arts are not only reflected in the restaurants and culinary schools he established, but also in the lasting impact of his book 'Le Guide Culinaire'. more

You May Also Like

“Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.”

Guy Food Cooking Meals Culinary Vitamins Carrots Good Meals

Author:Will Rogers

“Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks - a delicious kind of cake, at present scarce known in this city, except in genuine Dutch families.”

Kind Sometimes Cities Known Food Balls Tables Cooking Genuine Enormous Fats Apples Culinary Cake Immense Dishes Pie Delicious Boast Scarce Dutch Peaches Hog Dough Doughnut Pears Apple Pie

Book:The works

Source: The works

“Speaking of food, English cuisine has received a lot of unfair criticism over the years, but the truth is that it can be a very pleasant surprise to the connoisseur of severely overcooked livestock organs served in lukewarm puddles of congealed grease. England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.”

“TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.”

Passion Food Universal Tables Cooking Culinary Concessions Irresponsibility Thrifty

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.”

Giving Food Advantage Cooking Culinary Elegant Gracious Cuisine Offence Metamorphosis Kidneys Calves Chameleon Condescension

Author:Emmanuel des Essarts

“Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry.”

Writing Moments Hands Pleasure Talking Food Fine Mouths Cooking Culinary Throat Delicious Strawberries Nectarines

Book:The Complete Works of John Keats

Source: The Complete Works of John Keats

“TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.”

Sometimes Strong Food Drink Cooking Culinary Strong Drink Teetotalers

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said - Come, let us all go live at Paris: the French love good eating - they are all gourmands - we shall rank high.”

Thinking World Said Three Minutes Food Ten Eating Cooking Driving Cooks Paris Shops Culinary Good Eating French Love

Book:Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey: (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey: (A Modern Library E-Book)

“Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.”

Giving Doe Use Food Cooking Humble Thanks Islands Culinary Sincere Turkeys Thanksgiving Day Plumber Sneer Hearty Fiji

Author:Mark Twain

“The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.”

Quality Food Cooking Culinary Thinker Leafs Benevolence Barrels Vines Wrapping Great Thinkers

Author:Emmanuel des Essarts