“There are a lot of products still to be discovered in the world and experimentation, for example with seafood and fish. There are thousands of products that we're not eating right now that maybe will be cultivated in a good agriculture situation, a sustainable, ecological way. Maybe there will be textures or flavors we hadn't even thought of. In the Amazon there are 400 fruits that are not cultivated right now. They're just incredible fruits. Textures, tastes that we don't know right now.” KnowsWorldWayStillsSituationExampleFoodProductsTasteRight NowEatingFruitIncrediblesFishesAgricultureFlavorTextureEcologicalAmazonExperimentationSeafoodEating Right Author:Ferran Adria
“...if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.” IfsSunFoodColdCookingDawnCulinaryFlavorChillSilkBeefBarbecueSun Rise Author:William Allen White
“The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.” ThreeWhiteFoodCookingBrownCulinaryYellowFlavorSauce Author:Guy de Maupassant
“We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.” WellsEffectsFoodColorTeethChineseCulinaryFlavorFragranceTextureCrisps Book:My country and my people Source: My country and my people
“The kitchen, reasonably enough, was the scene of my first gastronomic adventure. I was on all fours. I crawled into the vegetable bin, settled on a giant onion and ate it, skin and all. It must have marked me for life, for I have never ceased to love the hearty flavor of raw onions.” FirstsHeartEnoughFoodAdventureSceneSkinsCookingGiantsKitchenCulinaryVegetablesFlavorBeardOnionsHeartyFoursCulinary Love Book:Delights and Prejudices Source: Delights and Prejudices
“If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.” IfsI CanReasonFoodTypeIf I CouldFlavorSauceFood SafetySoySoy Sauce Author:Martin Yan
“I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.” LittlesMadeLastsCoursesPerfectImagineFoodRegardCookingSubtleCulinaryFlavorDessertBittersweetExposingHolding BackExtrovertsFresh FoodPerfect WomanSweets And DessertsPerfect FoodDessert First Author:Graham Kerr
“Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor... What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.” WayArtArtistWatchesSeeingCreationFoodColorPaintingReadyMaterialsCreatingPatienceOilPainterCraftsMasterpieceFlavorLoadedHousewifePaletteTrue ArtistsSqueezingAssemblingTruenessRipenessPeaking Author:Keith Floyd
“In the Barbecue is any four footed animal -- be it mouse or mastodon -- whose dressed carcass is roasted whole... at its best it is a fat steer, and must be eaten within an hour of when it is cooked. For if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef -- staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.” IfsWholeHoursAnimalSunFourFoodColdCookingFatsDawnCulinaryMiceFlavorChillSilkSteersBeefBarbecueSun Rise Author:William Allen White
“Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the weaker.” OrderFoodTasteStrongerCookingVariousCulinarySaltDishesFlavorPolicemen Author:Margaret Visser
“You are eating the sea, that's it, only the sensation of a gulp of sea water has been wafted out of it by some sorcery, and you are on the verge of remembering you don't know what, mermaids or the sudden smell of kelp on the ebb tide or a poem you read once, something connected with the flavor of life itself.” KnowsHas BeensRememberWaterSeaFoodEatingConnectedSmellSensationsTidesFlavorVergeMermaidSorcerySea Water Book:The Oysters of Locmariaquer Source: The Oysters of Locmariaquer
“Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.” WritingSongFoodColorPaintingCookingNotesCulinaryChefFlavorComposingCombiningCreativeness Author:Wolfgang Puck