Modernist Cuisine Quotes

#1. It's just about asking why. We as cooks historically have been very, very technically proficient but not technically informed as to why we do what we do. Modernist cuisine is about that knowledge.

Wylie Dufresne

#2. When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

Nathan Myhrvold

#3. As a pure source of reference, 'Modernist Cuisine' is incredibly helpful. It's like a modern-day encyclopedia, except for a single subject. It's not always the answer, but it's always a starting point. I feel honored to have been able to contribute to it.

Wylie Dufresne

#4. I believe that Lady Gaga is like a carnival ride. From a distance she looks fun, but up close, you don't wanna climb on that.

Bill Engvall

#5. Now, I know I am not a craftsmen... but greatness is in the act of creation and not necessarily in the finished product. Creating is the yin to the yang of our consumption and the doorway to beauty that we all want to walk through. Creating is how I tell the world I love it." ~ Atticus

Kevin Hearne

#6. The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.

Jacques Ellul

#7. If the church is acceptable to this present age
and is not suffering reproach, then it is not the true church that our Lord founded.

Billy Graham

#8. I'm gonna fuck up. I'm gonna fuck up a lot, Pidge, but you have to forgive me.

Jamie McGuire

#9. I always thought my family was so bizarre, so when people started coming up to me and saying, 'My family was exactly like yours,' I was completely knocked out.

Mary Karr

#10. All in all, the purification of the armed forces, state institutions, and the communist party led to about fifty thousand executions.

Timothy Snyder

#11. It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.

Saint Ambrose

#12. I'm an old fashioned theater major at heart. I love to do a show, do something with friends; I'm kind of a nerd in that way. I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance.

Tom Lenk

#13. You're a writer," she said. "You get to live someone else's life every time you write a book. But I'm stuck with mine. It's lonely.

Ava Sinclair