Foodish ThinkinG

“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.”
~ James Beard (1903-1985)

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“Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.”
~ Mark Kurlansky (2002)

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“Food is the most primitive form of comfort.”
~ Sheilah Graham (1904-1988)

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“Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold like jewels. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available to all.”
~ Pearl Buck (1892-1973)

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“Food, like a loving touch or a glimpse of divine power, has that ability to comfort.”
~ Norman Kolpas

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“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
~ Hippocrates

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“Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.”
~ Alan D. Wolfelt

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“Food is not about impressing. It’s about making people feel comfortable.”
~ Ina Garten

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“After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s relatives.”
~ Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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“Cooking with LOVE provides FOOD for the SOUL.”

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“After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s relatives.”
~ Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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“Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation – experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way.”
~ Paul Theroux

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“Cooking is an observation-based process that you can’t do if you’re so completely focused on a recipe.”
~ Alton Brown

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“If you go back far enough in cookery, you realize that you are not an inventor, only a recreator.”
~ Michel Guerard

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“Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.”
~ Marcel Boulestin

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“Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.”
~ Craig Claiborne

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“Recipes can be followed, but the whys and wherefores are self-taught, tactile and gustatory sensations can be experienced but the raison d’etre and the critical standards are unknown.”

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“A recipe has no soul. You as the cook must bring soul to the recipe.”
~ Thomas Keller

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“Once you understand the foundations of cooking – whatever kind you like, whether it’s French or Italian or Japanese – you really don’t need a cookbook anymore.”
~ Thomas Keller

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“In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”
~ Julia Child

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“Fat gives things flavor.”
~ Julia Child

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“The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living.”
~ Dione Lucas

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“You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients.”
~ Julia Child

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“I don’t like ‘gourmet cooking’ or ‘this’ cooking or ‘that’ cooking. I like ‘good cooking.'”
~ James Beard (1903-1985)

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“Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.”
~ Maurice de Vlaminck

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“Happy and successful cooking doesn’t rely only on know-how; it comes from the heart, makes great demands on the palate and needs enthusiasm and a deep love of food to bring it to life.”
~ Georges Blanc

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“The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation – he cooks with enjoyment, anticipation, spontaneity, and he is willing to experiment.”
~ Pearl Bailey (1973)

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“Good cooking does not depend on whether the dish is large or small, expensive or economical. If one has the art, then a piece of celery or salted cabbage can be made into a marvelous delicacy; whereas if one has not the art, not all the greatest delicacies and rarities of land, sea or sky are of any avail.”
~ Yuan Mei

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“Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don’t realize it. Even if you’re not a great chef, there’s nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn’t.”
~ Gerard Depardieu