Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Adriano Zumbo - Page 2

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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Mostly my ideas come from within, from my experiences, my childhood and the master of all sweets and lollies, Mr. Willy Wonka.
Compound chocolate is gritty, cheaper and doesn't have that fruitiness, the backnotes and smoothness you get in couverture.
If you have the chocolatiest everything you eat two spoons full and be out on the couch for the rest of the day. It's better to have something you can enjoy.
Long term, I'd love a big shop with everything in it. A one-stop shop. A haven.
A lot of old Australian bakeries used a lot of trans-fats but I just wanted to use quality ingredients - butter, cream, custard - to produce a high-quality product.
If I was hosting a high tea at home the last thing I would want to do is make it too fussy for myself.
I've become good at judging whether a girl wants to be around you just because she's after your status or because you're popular.
When I'm working and I need to taste food, I use a small spoon or eat a small piece, rather than wolfing down an entire piece of cake.
I do the odd pie, or quiche or sausage roll.
I eat cake every day. — © Adriano Zumbo
I eat cake every day.
There are no mistakes in life... only experiences.
When we first opened in 2007 no one really knew about macarons. We sold maybe 50 to 100 a day.
The hardest challenge is doing something more traditional. When you do something new, it's easier because it's its own thing. But the traditional ones, you have to do them right.
I was born in the Chinese year of the rooster, so maybe that explains my affinity with chickens.
In the end, you have to do what makes you happy - the people who love you and are around you are all that matters.
I eat around 6 handfuls of 65 percent and up cocoa mass content chocolate each day.
When I was 19, I began work at a French sourdough bakery in Balmain.
What better way to celebrate 50 years of defending human rights than over a candlelit dinner with friends and family.
I had a Vegemite bun every day from the tuck shop for lunch when I was a kid and I was inspired by that.
I think you need to have a day or two when you treat yourself, because it brings happiness, it stimulates your mind. — © Adriano Zumbo
I think you need to have a day or two when you treat yourself, because it brings happiness, it stimulates your mind.
I ate everything. I ate every single lolly you can think of. Chocolate bars, Curly Wurlys, Aero bars, Fantales, Minties, Clinkers, Cherry Ripes. Pretty much anything, you name it, I ate it.
I used to eat the batter raw. My sister would make it and I'd lick the bowl and then I started to get it off the shelf and whip it up and eat it with a spoon.
If I hosted a high tea at home it would be an Italian aperitivo-style high tea. I'd make little meatballs with lemon puree and mozzarella centres. Or maybe little schnitzel sliders with coleslaw.
Inspiration is everywhere - life, travel, childhood, nature - it depends on how you see it, how you can absorb the inspiration, and it depends on how your mind thinks. It could be a pattern on the floor that may be the next pattern I put on a cake, it just depends upon how you take it, when you're seeing it and what you're looking for.
I'm used to criticism. — © Adriano Zumbo
I'm used to criticism.
I say to the guys at work, 'You've got to have fun - we're here more than we're at home.' Same with cakes; when you go and buy something, you've got to buy some fun.
I'm a bit of a thinker so I think a lot, and process a lot, and it always evolves into something different.
If you're dreaming up a dessert, you've got to remember to keep it well balanced.
I'll eat a bowl of bircher muesli for breakfast and I really like fresh carrot, orange, ginger and mint juice.
Growing up and walking around the supermarket, lollies were the thing that gave me that kind of kick, and you'd expect lots of them. It would be that or a pack of cake mix which got me into food.
High tea is fun. It's elegant and social and a great way not to have to devote yourself to a big meal but still have a drink and a relaxed time.
I don't get time to go to the gym often, so I exercise on the job.
When I was a kid, my parents ran a supermarket; I grew up in there and everything was free, it was like a wonderland. There were lollies and biscuits and chips, and I used to eat more of that than vegetables.
Chocolate's good for ya - high cocoa content chocolate is.
I love chocolate and I think there is no such thing as too much. — © Adriano Zumbo
I love chocolate and I think there is no such thing as too much.
There were some flavors that didn't work, like doughnut-flavored Tim Tams.
I love a good burger, and when I was brainstorming pies, I thought, hey - burgers and pies are both perfect for eating out of your hands.
Chocolate fondant, creme brule, and sponge cake with jam, cream and fresh berries are always winners.
I'll put a 25-kilogram bag of sugar over each shoulder and run up the stairs with them when we're loading ingredients that have been delivered, and I'll hold 25-kilogram blocks of butter at shoulder height to build arm strength as well.
If you use apple in one dish think of using citrus or something more neutral like vanilla in another. You constantly need to be challenging the tastebuds but not assaulting them.
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