“You cannot get an influence from the cuisine of a country if you don’t understand it. You’ve got to study it.” – Chef Ferran Adria

‎”This is my advice to people: Learn how to cook, try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun”-Julia Child

“Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste.” – Brillat-Savarin

“Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials” – Nathan Myhrvold

“When you’re eating something and your palate tells you what’s missing, that’s when you start combining.” – Justin Quek

“The greatest dishes are very simple.” — Auguste Escoffier, the “Emperor of Chefs”

“Ingredients are not sacred. The art of cuisine is sacred.” – Tanith Tyrr

“Eating is sensorial. More than that, it’s about interpreting the information that your senses give you.”– Chef Andoni

“Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.” – Marcel Boulestin

“A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane’s instruction manual while flying.” – Alton Brown

“Cooking is so popular today because it’s the perfect mix of food and fun,” – Emeril Lagasse

“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it” – Julia Child

“Recipes don’t work unless you use your heart! “ – Dylan Jones

“Secrets, especially with cooking, are best shared so that the cuisine lives on.” – Bo Songvisava

“First, knife skills. Then, knowing how to control heat. Most important is choosing the right product .. the rest is simple.” – Justin Quek

“These days, gastronomy is so ambiguous and abstract, journalists are moving more and more from critiquing to describing experiences”– Chef Andoni Luiz Aduriz

“In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.” – Jean Antheleme Brillat-Savarin

“Cooking is like love, it should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” – Harriet Van Horne

“Seafood on the grill can be intimidating if you don’t know what you are doing. It’s really quite easy” – Kevin Steele

“Cooking is an observation-based process that you can’t do if you’re so completely focused on a recipe.” – Alton Brown

“Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it” – Elizabeth Robbins Pennell

‎”You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients”– Julia Child