Marie-Antoine Careme Quotes

Marie Antoine Carême (French: ; 8 June 1784 – 12 January 1833) was a French chef and an early practitioner and exponent of the elaborate style of cooking known as grande cuisine, the "high art" of French cooking: a grandiose style of cookery favoured by both international royalty and by the newly rich of Paris. Carême is often considered one of the first internationally renowned celebrity chefs. ...more

… the agent provocateur of a good dinner.

When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.

Topic(s): World , Literature , Food

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

Topic(s): Art , Painting , Food

The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, ‘must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.’

Topic(s): Pleasure , Eating , Dinner

Beef is the soul of cooking.

Topic(s): Soul , Cooking , Beef

I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.

Topic(s): Eye , Order , Hundred

My boy, the ‘quenelles de sole’ were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.

Topic(s): Should , Poor , Boys

Why should the Marquis de Cussy wage war on soup? I cannot understand a dinner without it. I hold soup to be the well beloved of the stomach.

Topic(s): Should , Wells , War

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