James Beard
Title: Chef James Andrew Beard
Full Name: James Andrew Beard
Birthdate: May 5, 1903
Birthplace: Portland, Oregon, USA
Date of Death: January 23, 1985
Occupation: Author and Chef
Profile: First prominent television chef.
Website: http://www.jamesbeard.org/
Number of Quotes: 20
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.
A recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
Be simple. Be honest. Don't overcook and don't undercook, but it's better to undercook than overcook.
Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.
Grilling, broiling, barbecuing—whatever you want to call it—is an art, not just a matter of
building a pyre and throwing on a piece of meat as a sacrifice to the gods of the stomach.
I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.
I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.
I don't like gourmet cooking or this
cooking or that
cooking. I like good cooking.
If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.
The kitchen is a sacred space—the heart of the home, where nourishment and creativity meet.
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking, you've got to have a what-the-hell
attitude.
The only thing that will make a soufflé fall is if it knows you're afraid of it.
The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living.
The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you're convinced that cooking is
drudgery, you're never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.
There is no such thing as a new recipe. All recipes are built on other recipes.
Too few people understand a really good sandwich.
When you cook, you never stop learning. That's the fascination of it.
Wine is a part of civilized life, a part of the hospitality of the home, and a part of the joy of eating.
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