Careme Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Freedom from one man is just another one.

Leslie Jamison

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

Marie-Antoine Careme

#6. History punishes those that come late to it.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#7. Even better to walk in your enemy's shoes. Tis the best way to control their footsteps. Or erase them altogether, should the opportunity arise.

A.G. Howard

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. The world is a bridge: cross it, but build no house upon it.

Akbar

#11. Among the faithful, in the great kitchens of the world, Escoffier is to Careme what the New Testament is to the Old.

Andre Simon

#12. With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works.

Colin Greenwood

#13. Beef is the soul of cooking.

Marie-Antoine Careme

#14. The Gays have not only come out of the closet, but they have managed somehow to put us into it.

Charles Bukowski

#15. 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

#16. the irrepressible, quivering brilliance of her eyes and her smile set him on fire

Leo Tolstoy

#17. A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run.

Robert Jordan

#18. The creative person should have no other biography than his works.

B. Traven

#19. The world is in your hands, now use it.

Phil Collins

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

Marie-Antoine Careme