Marcella Hazan Quotes & Sayings

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

Cooking is an art, but you eat it too. — Marcella Hazan

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

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

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

Once the pasta is sauced, serve it promptly, inviting your guests and family to put off talking and start eating. — Marcella Hazan

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

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