Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Marcella Hazan

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English writer Marcella Hazan.

Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Marcella Hazan was an Italian cooking writer whose books were published in English. Her cookbooks are credited with introducing the public in the United States and the United Kingdom to the techniques of traditional Italian cooking. She was considered by chefs and fellow food writers to be the doyenne of Italian cuisine.

English - Writer | April 15, 1924 - September 29, 2013

Source: Wikipedia

I need to smell its smells, to hear its sounds, to see food in a pot that simmers, bubbles, sizzles. I enjoy the physical involvement of stirring, turning, poking, mashing, scraping.

Marcella Hazan

Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of the Italian's age-old gift of making art out of life.

Marcella Hazan

[On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.

Marcella Hazan

80% of Italian cooking is done in a sauté pan.

Marcella Hazan

And while other passions in your life may at some point begin to bank their fires, the shared happiness of good homemade food can last as long as we do.

Marcella Hazan

I don't cook 'concepts.' I use my head, but I cook from the heart, I cook for flavor.

Marcella Hazan

Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.

Marcella Hazan

The Italian comes to his table with the same open heart with which a child falls into his mother's arms, with the same easy feeling of being in the right place.

Marcella Hazan

What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world.

Marcella Hazan

Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.

Marcella Hazan

In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate manipulation and refined by the ultimate polish of a sauce.

Marcella Hazan

Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Marcella Hazan

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