Escoffier Quotes

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

Andre Simon

#2. Auguste Escoffier into what we now know as the five mother sauces of French cuisine. It's funny

Padma Lakshmi

#3. Everything is relative but there is a standard which must not be deviated from, especially with reference to the basic culinary preparations. A. Escoffier The Complete Guide to the Art of Modern Cookery

Michael Ruhlman

#4. I cook. I did the Escoffier course in Paris when I was 21 in one of those periods when it was like a pause. I can cook anything Italian, Chinese.

Marie-Chantal Claire

#5. My food hero has to be Auguste Escoffier. And the villain? The man who's been most responsible for the death of food in my time is Ronald McDonald. He's always scared me, I think he's evil - he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Him and the Hamburglar.

Arthur Potts Dawson

#6. Our hope concerning the future is great, and our faith is strong. We know we've scarcely scratched the surface of that which will come to pass in the years that lie ahead.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#7. The Missouri men are snakes," I whisper to Jeff. "The lot of them."
"Men are men," he says with a shrug. "It's men thinking other men are snakes that's the problem.

Rae Carson

#8. Good food is the basis of true happiness

Auguste Escoffier

#9. The literary publishers were the Lords of Culture, the master parasites sitting on top of this swarming dunghill.

Jonathan Galassi

#10. Life is about opportunities, creating them and embracing them, and for me, that was the Olympic dream. That's what defined me. That was my bliss.

Janine Shepherd

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

Auguste Escoffier

#12. I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#13. The ultimate aim of all science is to penetrate the unknown.

Walter Reisch

#14. Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe.

Peter Dicken

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

Auguste Escoffier

#16. Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.

Dalai Lama

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

Auguste Escoffier

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

Auguste Escoffier

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

Auguste Escoffier

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

Auguste Escoffier

#21. Battle day and night against the guile of oblivion ...

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Auguste Escoffier

#23. Don't expect life to be fair an', Paddy, for God's sake, don't ever give all yer love to just one thing.

Cindy Brandner

#24. I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they're thrust into hellish circumstances.

Sharon Shinn

#25. People often ignore injustices for the sake of Not Getting Involved; too afraid of Making Matters Worse. Not realising matters are made far worse because of it.

Poppy Inkwell

#26. They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

Hamid Karzai

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

Auguste Escoffier

#28. Facebook draws from the public and public-interest sphere, a simultaneously bold and modest step towards acknowledging that our new networked technologies deeply affect our lives in ways not always captured or best shaped by the typical template of consumer and seller.

Jonathan Zittrain

#29. The greatest dishes are very simple.

Auguste Escoffier