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“Lyon is full of temperamental gourmets, eternally engaged in a never-ending search for that imaginary, perfect, unknown little back-street bistro, where one can dine in the style of Louis XIV for the price of a pack of peanuts.”

Littles Perfect Streets Style Food Cooking Engaged Culinary Imaginary Packs Peanuts Never Ending Dine Gourmet Dine In Bistro

Author:Roy Andries De Groot

“'Monsieur,' Madame d'Arestel, Superior of the convent of the Visitation at Belley, once said to me more than fifty years ago, 'whenever you want to have a really good cup of chocolate, make it the day before, in a porcelain coffeepot, and let it set. The night's rest will concentrate it and give it a velvety quality which will make it better. Our good God cannot possibly take offense at this little refinement, since he himself is everything that is most perfect.'”

Source: The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy

“To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.”

Perfect Family Nice Food Normal Smell Bread Exaggeration

Book:The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

“There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.”

Perfect Minutes Food Ten Cooking Fruit Culinary Pears Perfect Food

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is their drawing room and the sun their lamp. Besides, they have appetite, Nature's special gift, which lends to such a meal a vivacity unknown indoors, however beautiful the surroundings.”

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Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Cooking is so popular today because it's the perfect mix of food and fun.”

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Author:Emeril Lagasse

“Plain fresh bread, its crust shatteringly crisp. Sweet cold butter. There is magic in the way they come together in your mouth to make a single perfect bite.”

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Author:Ruth Reichl

“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.”

“Cooking is not about being the best or most perfect cook, but rather it is about sharing the table with family and friends.”

Perfect Food Tables Cooking Cooks Being The Best Family And Friends

Author:Skye Gyngell

“Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.”

Source: Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel

“A Bearnaise sauce is simply an egg yolk, a shallot, a little tarragon vinegar, and butter, but it takes years of practice for the result to be perfect.”

Years Littles Perfect Results Practice Food Perfection Cooking Eggs Culinary Sauce Vinegar

Author:Fernand Point

“The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.”

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Book:South Wind

Source: South Wind