17 Quotes by Fernand Point

Perfection is lots of little things done well.

Success is the sum of a lot of small things done correctly.

I’m not hard to please, I’m content with the very best.

In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.

Before judging a thin man, one must get some information. Perhaps he was once fat.

Cuisine is not invariable like a Codex formula. But one must guard against tampering with the essential bases.

A Bearnaise sauce is simply an egg yolk, a shallot, a little tarragon vinegar, and butter, but it takes years of practice for the result to be perfect.