“It’s funny to me that most of the cooking in the world is done by women, and yet when you look at modern Western cuisine, it’s largely based on what a few dead Frenchmen have opined to be the correct way of doing things. It’s funny how these old European men used a label like “mother sauce” when there were no women to be found anywhere near those old professional kitchens. Cooking was something women did to nourish and nurture their families, whereas for men it was largely something they did professionally to gain money and status.”
Quote by Padma Lakshmi
Work
Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir
Browse quotes and source details for this work. more
Author
You May Also Like
Source: Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir
Source: Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“Buy books. Unlike high calorie food, they don't give heart attacks.”
Source: Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease
“It's not over till the fat lady eats!”
Source: The New Land
Source: Republic of Dirt: A Return to Woefield Farm
Source: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
“As grandmothers used to say, 'Better to pay the grocer than the doctor”
Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
