Auguste Escoffier Quotes & Sayings

#1. The greatest dishes are very simple.

#2. Fish without wine is like egg without salt.

#3. Rice is the best, the most nutritive and unquestionably the most widespread staple in the world.

#4. So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.

#5. Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.

#6. Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite.

#7. Good food is the basis of true happiness

#8. Indeed, stock is everything in cooking. Without it, nothing can be done.

#9. People who do not accept the new, grow old very quickly.

#10. Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

Auguste Escoffier Quotes