Marie-Antoine Careme famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.
-- Marie-Antoine Careme

#Cooking #Friendly #Literature
The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.
-- Marie-Antoine Careme

#Art #Numbers #Branches
I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.
-- Marie-Antoine Careme

#Eye #Order #Want
My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.
-- Marie-Antoine Careme

#Boys #Vegetables #Poor
to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world.
-- Marie-Antoine Careme

#World #Chef #Standards
The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.'
-- Marie-Antoine Careme

#Meals #Agents #Soup
Beef is the soul of cooking.
-- Marie-Antoine Careme

#Cooking #Soul #Beef
Why should the Marquis de Cussy wage war on soup? I cannot understand a dinner without it. I hold soup to be the well beloved of the stomach.
-- Marie-Antoine Careme

#War #Dinner #Soup
... the agent provocateur of a good dinner.
-- Marie-Antoine Careme

#Food #Cooking #Agents

Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.
When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he said, is the preparation and cooking; decorating is the final seasoning, the savoring.
Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

Marie-Antoine Careme famous quotes

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