Marcel Boulestin famous quotes

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

#Art #Food #Measurement
Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art.
-- Marcel Boulestin

#Art #Chemistry #Cookery
The pleasure of eating something because it is expensive has absolutely nothing to do with the taste of good cuisine.
-- Marcel Boulestin

#Taste #Cuisine #Eating
Do not be afraid of simplicity. If you have a cold chicken for supper, why cover it with a tasteless white sauce which makes it look like a pretentious dish on the buffet table at some fance dress ball?
-- Marcel Boulestin

#White #Simplicity #Dresses
A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.
-- Marcel Boulestin

#Cooking #Good Woman #Artistic
Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power of words which somehow will develop its qualities.
-- Marcel Boulestin

#Quality #Power Of Words #Eating
Peace and happiness, begin, geographically, where garlic is used in cooking.
-- Marcel Boulestin

#Cooking #Garlic #Used

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.
While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.
We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesnâ€™t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
But I don't want nutrition. I want food!
It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately enough.

Marcel Boulestin famous quotes

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