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- Nov 07, 2020
Food Quotes
Food as comfort, hardship, and honest confession.
This collection spans food's range, from the humiliation of accidentally poisoning a dinner guest to a genuine hardship of not having enough money for basic meals or clothes while starting out. For lighter, image-ready food lines, see Captions.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love cooking Japanese food at home. It's so easy to make an easy fry, a saute, or a quick braise and serve it over a bowl of rice with pickles and a side salad.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A well-seasoned and properly cleaned wok will always have micro-pores in the metal that hold some oil or food particulate, etc. - that's a good thing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For wok cooking, use oils with a high smoke point and low polyunsaturated-fat content: grapeseed oil, peanut oil, etc. Sesame oil and olive oil will burn and taste bitter. Oils with high polyunsaturated-fat contents like soybean oil will also make your food texturally unpleasant.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never use an aluminum pot, pan, or utensil when cooking tomatoes - or any other soft metal items for that matter. The acidity in the tomato doesn't do well with them; they create a chemical reaction that can turn cooked tomatoes bitter and fade the color, and the food will absorb some of the aluminum!
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like many other chef-entrepreneurs, I am convinced that fast food does not mean bad food.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we have cultural bias and practice some ethnocentrism when it comes to ethnic food in America.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather be a good guest in someone's home than tell them I don't like their food or make fun of them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The corner of the 'food media' that I think is troublesome to me is the shows on TV that don't really have a point or don't have a lesson to be learned. If you don't have a point, or if there's not some part of it that is meaningful and can change someone's life, in my old age, I'm just not into it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like being at food festivals and have someone from some weird cable access show that's all about lifestyle get in my face with a microphone and wants to know which party I'm going to later... That just is pointless kind of stuff to me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider a perfect hot dog on the street to be as valid a food experience as dinner at Blue Hill at Stone Barns.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanks to my parents, who had me traveling around the world mouth-first, I knew from a young age I wanted a career in food.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2012, I launched Andrew Zimmern's Canteen. Inspired by visits to street stalls and markets around the world, Andrew Zimmern's Canteen reflects the intersection of food and travel.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really think that the music is the food for our souls.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The food bank is something I've always supported because there's no excuse for anyone to go without food.
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- Nov 07, 2020