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Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages. -- Alexis Soyer
Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the orchestration and accompaniment of a fine meal, and enable a good chef or cook to demonstrate his talent. -- Curnonsky
If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body. -- Karl Lagerfeld
For me, Romesco is one of the greatest sauces in the world. -- Jose Andres Puerta
If I'm a great artisan of the kitchen, it's because I don't buy my sauces. -- Alain Ducasse
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. -- Ambrose Bierce
Custard puddings, sauces and fillings accompany the seven ages of man in sickness and in health. -- Irma S. Rombauer
I use ginger like garlic. I love it for steaming fish and making barbecue sauces or roasted chicken. -- Tom Douglas
My last supper would be a charcuterie smorgasbord with every kind of meat, and sauces to dip them in. -- Kelis
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I need savory sauces, stews and pastas. I can't live without pastas. My butt, you can tell I like to eat. -- Debi Mazar
I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine... and curry... and cheeses. -- Maeve Binchy
I would snack on crisps and chocolate and my meals weren't the best. I ate lots of steak with creamy sauces, chips and peas, washed down with wine and a pudding. -- Jennifer Ellison
Fresh egg pasta is traditionally served in the north of Italy with butter, cream and rich meat sauces, whereas dried pasta is more at home with the tomato- and olive oil-based ones of the south. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. I'm crazy about L.A. because at the farmers' market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms. -- Benjamin Millepied
Lime juice makes things taste fresher. I use it for drinks, salsas, relishes, soups, and sauces. You want some give to your limes - firmness means the inside is dry - and they'll stay softer longer if you don't refrigerate them. -- Bobby Flay
All the pre-made sauces in a jar, and frozen and canned vegetables, processed meats, and cheeses which are loaded with artificial ingredients and sodium can get in the way of a healthy diet. My number one advice is to eat fresh, and seasonally. -- Todd English
The Da Jing street market is little more than a few narrow intersections, barely six blocks long. But for a visitor, it is a living, breathing education in Shanghai cuisine, a style distinguished by its thick savory sauces spiked with sugar and soy sauce. -- Evan Osnos
The key to sauces is having patience. I'm not a patient woman, but I learned with sauces that you have to get everything on a slow roll and layer the flavors. That's where you get robust tastes: it starts one way and ends another. -- Kelis
Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homestores can be pricey so pay a visit to your local hardware store and pick up a few paint brushes which are less expensive and work equally as well. -- Bobby Flay
Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings. -- Robert Farrar Capon
Many of the Prego sauces - whether cheesy, chunky or light - have one feature in common: The largest ingredient, after tomatoes, is sugar. A mere half-cup of Prego Traditional, for instance, has the equivalent of more than two teaspoons of sugar: as much as two-plus Oreo cookies. -- Michael Moss
Cooking a piece of fish and cooking it right. Knowing the fish, knowing the properties of the fish. That's a hard thing to do rather than covering it with a lot of sauces and foams or other cooking methods that might be high wire acts and look good on the outside. -- Geoffrey Zakarian
I make some of my best recipes with a simple homemade stock. Keep shrimp shells stored in a plastic bag in the freezer. When you have almost a gallon-bag full, you can make a stock in 30 minutes that you can use in soups and sauces. You can then freeze the stock in ice-cube trays. -- Emeril Lagasse
Vietnamese food has probably been saved from the mass market because most people never master the sauces and condiments that must be added to the food, at the table, for its glories to become apparent. It's too much trouble, and a lot of people don't like asking for help, especially if the interaction involves some linguistic awkwardness. -- Tyler Cowen
As a chef, I could not wash my hands - nor clean pots, pans, utensils, meats or produce, nor make soups and sauces - if I did not have clean water. Were this to happen, of course, these would be the least of my concerns. Because water is the linchpin of survival: without it, not much else matters. -- Marcus Samuelsson
England has forty-two religions and only two sauces. -- Voltaire
There is no perfect spaghetti sauce. There are perfect spaghetti sauces. -- Howard Moskowitz
A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger. -- Edward Abbey
Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made. -- Octave Mirbeau
The game minus slow bowling is like bread without butter or, even worse, French cuisine without the sauces. -- Trevor Bailey
I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine and curry and cheeses. -- Maeve Binchy
Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other. -- Pliny the Elder
The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever. -- Guy de Maupassant
The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all. -- George Bernard Shaw
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born. -- Denis Diderot
The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man. -- Jerome K. Jerome
We must admit that the divine banquet of the brain was, and still is, a feast with dishes that remain elusive in the blending, and with sauces whose ingredients are even now a secret. -- Macdonald Critchley
There were twelve dishes of lamb cooked in different rich sauces, with a monster bowl of strange oddments, which I imagine also belonged to the private life of a sheep, floating in rich gravy. -- Rosita Forbes
Many of the delicious soups you eat in French homes and little restaurants are made just this way, with a leek-and-potato base to which leftover vegetables or sauces and a few fresh items are added. -- Julia Child

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