CHEF'S QUOTES...

"Measure the girth of the chef and you can rate his restaurant."
French saying

“Anybody can make you enjoy the first bite of a dish, but only a real chef can make you enjoy the last.”
Francois Minot

"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
Harriet Van Horne

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Voltaire

"The joys of the table belong equally to all ages, conditions, countries and times; they mix with all other pleasures, and remain the last to console us for their loss."
Jean Antheleme Brillet-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste

Ingredients are not sacred. The art of cuisine is sacred. It is at that altar I worship, and I shall go to sacrifice the fat geese and tender cattle to serve its ends. The holy icons of the chef's faith—fragrant truffles, rich foie gras, well-marbled meats and other luxurious ingredients - these are not God. Their synthesis and their miraculous transformation into a sum greater than its parts is creation, and this is what I find most worthy of reverence.
Tanith Tyrr, 1997

"A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would be in living in the midst of good cheer, in the country of truffles, partridges, truffled turkeys, and so forth. "Alas!" replied with a sigh the sad gastronomer, "can one really live at all in a country where there is no fresh sea-fish?"
Jean Antheleme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, 1825

"Laughter is brightest where food is best" for the chef, cook,pastry chef, or person who loves cooking, eating or dining. Good food equals good times.
Irish Proverb

"A smiling face is half the meal."
Latvian proverb for the chef, cook, baker, pastry chef or restaurant or kitchen owner inspires us to eat well, dine well with a smile.

"Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art..."
by Marcel Boulestin. A famous quote from a famous French chef and food writer.