15 Quotes by Michael Ruhlman

Always look for sparrows before you look for canaries.

I love this book! There are very few cookbooks published today that add something truly new and distinctive to the literature of food and cooking. Jennifer McLagan’s Fat is a smart, thoughtful book that ultimately asks us to understand our food better.

In the kitchen, the egg is ultimately neither ingredient nor finished dish but rather a singularity with a thousand ends.

There are people who can afford to eat healthfully and there are people who cannot. I’d say that represents a fundamental brokenness of our system and our food supply. It doesn’t have to be like that.

The social food researcher Harry Balzer noted without prompting that Americans are not cooking more, they’re simply eating more meals at home.

I buy onions every time I’m in the grocery store, not because I need them, but because I fear not having an onion when I do need it. Not having an onion in the kitchen is like working with a missing limb.