21 Quotes by Auguste Escoffier

Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur. English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

Above all, keep it simple.

Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

Indeed, stock is everything in cooking. Without it, nothing can be done.

The greatest dishes are very simple.

Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite.

People who do not accept the new, grow old very quickly.

So long as people don’t know how to eat they will not have good cooks.

Rice is the best, the most nutritive and unquestionably the most widespread staple in the world.