Antoine Careme Quotes

#1. A Michigander can be every bit as prickly as a New Yorker, just not out loud. The Midwesterner's credo: keep it to yourself.

James Hynes

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery.

Marie-Antoine Careme

#6. Mark Twain said "all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources.

Sean Patrick

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

Jacqueline Bisset

#10. There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.

Rachel Cohn

#11. Beef is the soul of cooking.

Marie-Antoine Careme

#12. 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

#13. We use the official definitions of terrorism. The definitions in the U.S. code, in British law, in U.S. Army manuals and so on. And if you use those definitions it follows instantly that the United States is the leading terrorist state in the world.

Noam Chomsky

#14. I hope I don't have an erection, Tengo thought.

Haruki Murakami

#15. Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Elie Wiesel

#16. I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.

Marie-Antoine Careme