>Ude took care with his prose, and either coined or popularised the maxim Coquus nascitur non fit.
>"Cooks are born, not made"
>In The French Cook he observed, "It is very remarkable that in France, where there is but one religion, the sauces are infinitely varied, whilst in England, where the different sects are innumerable, there is, we may say, but one single sauce"
To Ude, sauces were "the soul of cookery"

>Although Ude considered that when English cooking was done well it was unsurpassable, he deplored some aspects of the English attitude to dining. He condemned the unremitting hostility of England's doctors to good eating, and the indifference of its women to haute cuisine:

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No doubt, but he's my favourite chef along with Alexis Soyer.

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France alone invented tasty food. Before the French created cuisine, the world ate a variation of gruel, watery soup, or fried rat.