Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the least encouragement, but no cook can cook just for his or her own sake in a like manner. All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

A man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar.

Food without wine is a corpse wine without food is a ghost united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners.

Wine makes every meal an occasion.

Chicken may be eaten constantly without becoming nauseating.

Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.

Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime.

The first of all considerations is that our meals shall be fun as well as fuel.

Black coffee must be strong and very hot if strong coffee does not agree with you, do not drink black coffee. And if you do not drink black coffee, do not drink any coffee at all.

Among the faithful, in the great kitchens of the world, Escoffier is to Careme what the New Testament is to the Old.