James Beard

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. ↗

— James Beard

#gourmet #her #like #looks #tart

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. ↗

— James Beard

#food

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts. ↗

— James Beard

#food #food

There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing. ↗

— James Beard

#food

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. ↗

— James Beard

#cuisine #food #pork #food

Too few people understand a really good sandwich. ↗

— James Beard

#few people #good #people #really #sandwich

Food is our common ground, a universal experience. ↗

— James Beard

#common #common ground #experience #ground #our

I don't like gourmet cooking or "this" cooking or "that" cooking. I like good cooking. ↗

— James Beard

#good #gourmet #i #like

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around. ↗

— James Beard

#believe #cannibalism #enough #ever #had