Posted by Francois le feu sacre de Melogue on January 05, 1999 at 17:49:28:
My favorites come from either Fernand Point or Marco Pierre White...
""As far as cuisine is concerned one must read everything, see everything, hear everything, try everything, observe everything, in order to retain, in the end, just a little but"
"If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve with ceremony"
"One distinguishes a good cuisinier by his sauces. In the orchestra of la grande cuisine, the saucier is soloist"
"There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after painting the garden gate, take themselves to be painters"
"Success is the sum of a lot of small things done correctly"
"The duty of a good cuisinier is to transmit to the generations who will replace him everything he has learned and experienced"
"The great gastronome, Charles Monselet, died on Christmas Eve. Foreseeing his death, he told intimate friends: "I shall have a funeral with truffles." When I die, I should like the same."
These are all from Fernand Point. I will post some Marco Pierre White quotes later... Time to go to work...
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