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James Andrews Beard (May 5, 1903 – January 21, 1985) was an American cook, cookbook author, teacher and television personality. Beard was a champion of American cuisine who taught and mentored generations of professional chefs and food enthusiasts. His legacy lives on in twenty books, other writings and his foundation's annual James Beard awards in a number of culinary genres.

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Grilling, broiling, barbecuing - whatever you want to call it - is an art, not just a matter of building a pyre and throwing on a piece of meat as a sacrifice to the gods of the stomach.

Art, Barbecuing, Building, Food, Gods, Sacrifice

Goodness, how much there is to learn about food!

Food, Goodness, Learn

If you have never tasted a braised vegetable, you'll find it is a revelation.

Braised, Ifs, Revelation, Revelations, Tasted, Vegetables

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.

Choices, Meat, Narrow, Pork, Quite, Rest

It's foolish to go through life bemoaning the fact that you can't have this or that. Twaddle! You can omit certain foods and still enjoy eating.

Certain, Eating, Enjoy, Facts, Foolish, Twaddle

Be simple. Be honest. Don't overcook and don't undercook, but it's better to undercook than overcook.

Being Honest, Honest, Overcook, Simple, Undercook

Good cheese needs good companions.

Cheese, Companion, Companions, Good, Needs

No vegetable exists which is not better slightly undercooked.

Exists, Slightly, Undercooked, Vegetable, Vegetables

Like the theater, offering food and hospitality to people is a matter of showmanship, and no matter how simple the performance, unless you do it well, with love and originality, you have a flop on your hands.

Flop, Hands, Offering, Simple, Unless

It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

Ingredients, Thrift, Use, Waste

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.

Cooking, Firsts, Having, Secret

When I walk into a market I may see a different cut of meat or an unusual vegetable and think, ‘I wonder how it would be if I took the recipe for that sauce I had in Provence and put the two together?’ So I go home and try it out. Sometimes my idea is a success and sometimes it is a flop, but that is how recipes are born. There really are not recipes, only millions of variations sparked by someone’s imagination and desire to be a little creative and different. American cooking is built, after all, on variations of old recipes from around the world.

Cutting, Home, Idea, Market, Recipes, Thinking

There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

Flavor, High, Inferior, Thrift, Use, Waste

I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.

Convinced, Cookies, Cooking, Food, Simple

When you cook, you never stop learning. That's the fascination of it all.

Cooks, Fascination, Learning, Never Stop Learning, Stop

The roe of the Russian sturgeon has probably been present at more important international affairs than have all the Russian dignitaries of history combined. This seemingly simple article of diet has taken its place in the world along with pearls, sables, old silver, and Cellini cups.

Article, Food, History, International, Simple, Taken

In a house without a genuine kitchen, one of the delights of growing up is lost.

Genuine, Growing Up, House, Kitchen, Lost

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

Cooking, Food, Good, Gourmet, Home Cooking, Like

What comforted me? That is easy. It was a strong cold chicken jelly so very, very thick. My mother's Chinese cook would fix it. He would cook it down, condense it-this broth with all sorts of feet in it, then it would gell into sheer bliss. It kept me alive once for three weeks when I was ill as a child. And I've always craved it since.

Chicken, Children, Mother, Strong, Thick, Three

I’ve long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs.

Choice, Choices, Eggs, Long, Meal, Said

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