Top 77 Gourmet Quotes
#1. Even the most astute chefs seek out the assistance of Celine Labaune, owner of Gourmet Attitude, because they know they can rely on her keen senses and deep understanding of the truffle trade.
Thomas Keller
#2. The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.
Ludwig Bemelmans
#3. A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.
James Beard
#4. I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action.
Ty Pennington
#5. There are three points I used to help a gourmet chocolatier increase sales 300% in a single month as well as a Midwest city to increase tourism guests 500% in 12 months.
David Brier
#6. Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#7. Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.
Marya Hornbacher
#9. Today's food trucks are far from cheap eats on wheels, there are some seriously gourmet offerings on four wheels.
Tyler Florence
#10. Indulgence comes in all varieties: a mouthful of gourmet chocolate, a hot stone massage, a week in Paris or 20 uninterrupted minutes to get
lost in a book.
Gina Greenlee
#11. Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen. My mother was a gourmet chef and I'm the youngest of five kids. We would always congregate in the kitchen.
Laura Prepon
#12. Myron sipped his coffee. Gourmet coffee. A year ago he never drank coffee. Then he started stopping into one of the new coffee bars that kept cropping up like bad movies on cable.
Harlan Coben
#13. Her mum thought gourmet cooking was putting a load of fish fingers under the grill instead of in the frying pan.
Irvine Welsh
#14. For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.
Oscar Wilde
#15. No matter where he went in the City, there was an odoriferous mix of food and vehicles, like the alchemic concoctions of some mad gourmet mechanic: Kung Pao Saab Turbo, Buick Skylark Carbonara, Sweet-and-Sour Metro Bus, Honda Bolognese with Burning Clutch Sauce.
Christopher Moore
#16. I thought we were going to take a 20-mule team out to the Grand Canyon and get a Bunsen burner and a bow and arrow, and whatever you can catch you cook. And it's gotta be gourmet and it better look good.
The Creators Of Top Chef
#17. The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
E.F. Benson
#18. We often feed the critic gourmet meals and starve the rest.
Angeles Arrien
#19. I bid you peace - said at the end of every TV episode of The Frugal Gourmet
Jeff Smith
#20. Hopefully by next week the classes will have paid off and I'll be cooking gourmet."
"Gourmet? From your cooking?" He pushed aside his computer, grabbed a paper plate, and started scoop0ing rice. "You shouldn't be able say those things in the same sentence.
Kristin Miller
#21. I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.
Julia Child
#22. For a gourmet wine is not a drink but a condiment, provided that your host has chosen correctly.
Edouard De Pomiane
#23. I can't believe it! A real gourmet kitchen, and I get to watch!
Loic Remy
#24. What does happen in 'Gourmet,' we had eight test kitchens, and at any given time, there were, like, ten or twelve test cooks. And whenever anybody finished something, they would yell, 'Taste!' and everyone would go running towards it, and then taste, and then brutally deconstruct the dish.
Ruth Reichl
#25. As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for gourmet meals instead of the fast food. We bring to life a more expansive understanding of life, ourselves, and others. We are more generous and assertive.
Sharon Stone
#26. Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.
Alton Brown
#27. I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.
James Beard
#28. Great food needed more than chefs; it needed gourmet diners.
Nicole Mones
#29. Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.
Walter Moers
#30. It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.
George Will
#31. Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.
Sydney J. Harris
#32. I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford such an expensive luxury
Anna Kournikova
#33. I jokingly refer to the word 'gourmet' as the 'g' word.
Arthur Schwartz
#34. Sir, the nation is tense," said Cliff gravely. " It is asking itself how it can possibly stand idly by drinking gourmet coffee when an entire race is about to be disassembled. It wants to Enjoy, yes, but it feels it won't be able to fully Enjoy until some other closure is reached.
George Saunders
#35. I don't like to use 'gourmet' because it has become so overused and abused.
Arthur Schwartz
#36. A gourmet can tell from the flavor whether a woodcock's leg is the one on which the bird is accustomed to roost.
Lucius Beebe
#37. We have a company, Geometric Software, which is into engineering services software. We have a company called Nature's Basket, which is into gourmet retailing. Both are specialized companies.
Adi Godrej
#38. You sat in your nice little flat all through our war and watched us, bleeding all over the TV news. And you thought, 'How awful!' and then you got up and made yourself another cup of gourmet coffee." I flinched when he said that. It was a pretty accurate description.
Geraldine Brooks
#39. I took his eating habits and gourmet knowledge as signifiers for other cultural and economic characteristics.
Eve Turow
#40. I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.
Will Ferrell
#41. When I came to 'Gourmet,' I had no clue how to run a magazine; for television, I am fascinated to learn about editing.
Ruth Reichl
#42. Writing a great book is like creating a gourmet meal! Those who thoroughly enjoyed your book will come back to get fed again.
Darrell Gibbs
#43. The more modest and impractical the kitchen, the more likely one will be invited to stay for a meal. Show me a fancy house with a top-of-the-line gourmet kitchen, and I'll show you a family that eats out a lot.
Firoozeh Dumas
#44. I am a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking mostly Thai food. And a lot of times on movies, you have these trailers that have these little ovens and kitchenettes. A lot of actors never use them, but I would cook lunch just about every day.
Will Ferrell
#45. A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating.
Mark Kurlansky
#46. She believed photography to be the greatest of all art forms because it was simultaneously junk food and gourmet cuisine, because you could snap dozens of pictures in a couple of hours, then spend dozens of hours perfecting just a couple of them.
Tommy Wallach
#47. When we get to the end of human beings we have to delude ourselves into a belief in God, like a gourmet who demands more complex sauces with his food.
Graham Greene
#48. Whenever I was called a gourmet, I suspected I was being accused of something at least slightly unpleasant. But that was before I heard the term "foodie." I am still not sure that a gourmet is a good thing to be, but it must be better than a foodie.
Mark Kurlansky
#49. A gourmet knows that the best part is not always the expensive part, and he will find that part, and then he will share it. A gourmet should want to share.
Mark Kurlansky
#50. Food is important to me, but I wouldn't say that I'm a gourmet. I don't like tricksy food.
Jonathan Dimbleby
#51. You might be a redneck if you grow Vidalia onions, rather than considering them a gourmet item.
Jeff Foxworthy
#52. I'm not a gourmet. I just like the planet.
Brie Larson
#53. To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.
Ludwig Bemelmans
#54. They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, right?" I said. "How about Tristan and I make you and Jax a romantic dinner? And you bake him a cake for dessert. We'll warm him up with a gourmet meal, but once he tastes your cake, he'll be putty in your hands.
Kristie Cook
#55. I'm not really into gourmet food; I'm the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the restaurant of the moment.
Lee Child
#56. You know he's full of crap, right?" Chas spoke up.
"Grade A, gourmet crap," Coalhouse agreed.
Lia Habel
#57. I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.
Giada De Laurentiis
#58. Concocting a good guest list is like seasoning a gourmet sauce. Too many similar ingredients and it's bland. Too much variety in the seasoning and the result may be overpowering.
Sheila Ostrander
#59. I remember the excitement of finding a great pancake recipe in 'Gourmet.' It felt as if it were mine. And it was Berkeley, of course - everybody cooked together. Cooking is what one did.
Mona Simpson
#60. I say everything's about company. A gourmet meal with an asshole is a horrible meal. A hot dog with an interesting person is an amazing meal.
Chris Rock
#61. Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.
Nora Ephron
#62. Why pizza delivery?" he says. "It makes people happy." Plus, Sugoi's gourmet selection includes deep fried pigs' brains, and I only pick off a few pieces. "Does it make you happy?" says Prentice. It does when I'm crunching deep fried brain.
T.W. Brown
#63. I love steakhouses. When I'm in Chicago, I know there's a Gibsons that's open late. 13 Coins at Sea-Tac Airport in Washington is a gourmet restaurant I love.
Triple H
#64. I am drawn to the new chart with all of its colorful intricacies as a gourmet must anticipate the details of a feast ... I shall keep them forever. As stunning exciting proof that a proper mixture of science and art is not only possible but a blessed union.
Ernest K. Gann
#65. Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.
Ronald Reagan
#66. If I did sales - my technique would be to hand-seal each deal with gourmet omelets, by Jarod Kintz's secret invisible recipe that I stole.
Will Advise
#67. A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.
Kathy Mattea
#68. What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up guitars to pass the time while our dishes were simmering, baking, boiling, etc.
Kurt Cobain
#69. A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet ...
M.F.K. Fisher
#70. It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.
Russell Baker
#71. Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#72. Vampires are like gourmet chocolate - oh, so tempting, but overindulgence is a killer.
Sharon Ashwood
#73. Mayakovsky, brazen poet of the revolution, sicced his jeering muses on gourmet fancies: Eat your pineapples, gobble your grouse Your last day is coming, you bourgeois louse!
Anya Von Bremzen
#74. I want to go as far as it will take me. I would love to go pro, but if that doesn't happen, I am a gourmet chef and would like to open my own restaurant.
Paige VanZant
#75. During the day I force myself to at least eat some salads rather than rubbish, and a steak in the evening. In fact, I eat to basically satisfy my hunger. I hardly have the time to appreciate a meal, and I'm everything, but a gourmet.
Milla Jovovich
#76. Well, every art requires appreciation, doesn't it? I mean people who paint, sculpt, or write books want an audience. that's the reason they're doing it for, and it's the same when you're a cook. You need somebody who savours it, not one who just says, 'Oh it's not bad.
Margaret Powell
#77. Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner
Ruth Reichl
