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

- Marie-Antoine Careme

to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the m…

- Marie-Antoine Careme

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

- Marie-Antoine Careme

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

- Marie-Antoine Careme

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 har…

- Marie-Antoine Careme

... the agent provocateur of a good dinner.

- Marie-Antoine Careme

The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must…

- Marie-Antoine Careme

Beef is the soul of cooking.

- Marie-Antoine Careme

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.

- Marie-Antoine Careme