Cooking Quotes · Page 21

The avocado is native to the Mexican state of Puebla, which helps explain why it's so popular in Mexican cooking.

— Marcus Samuelsson

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

— Alexander Fleming

My mom's cooking was all about comfort, flavor, and plenty of butter. It was so hearty.

— Sonoya Mizuno

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and…

— Robert Frost

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

— Pliny the Elder

Conservatives claim [Hillary] Clinton campaign involved in satanic 'spirit cooking'.

— Bill Maher

Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.

— Nicole Hollander

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

— Julia Child

“In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served…

— Julia Child

I'm not a big cook at all, but anything easy and quick, like pasta, I'm up to. My husband cooks for me…

— Darcey Bussell

It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of…

— Izaak Walton

Cooking is mythology - a story told over and over, passed on again and again, always with the same meaning but expressed…

— Anna Thomas

I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies…

— Patsy Kensit

I hate cooking. But I do make the candied yams every year at Thanksgiving. And they're awesome! You could definitely get diabetes…

— Marlon Wayans

There's a layer of satisfaction that I get from cooking that is more than the work itself. I think when you're too…

— Paul Rankin

I am inspired by music, travel, great architecture, and good, healthy food. I look for opportunities to learn about history, art, and…

— Tim Matheson

“Now alongside Scovell, John eased preserved peaches out of galliot pots of syrup and picked husked walnuts from puncheons of salt. He…

— Lawrence Norfolk

My life has been sadly lacking in snails. I can't clearly remember any first-hand encounters. The best thing I can come up…

— Debra Hamel

In Ethiopia, where I was born, all the cooks are women. When I grew up in Sweden, my mom and my grandmother…

— Marcus Samuelsson

If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour…

— Idries Shah

I got used to certain things that normal kids don't get used to, like, when my mother went into the kitchen for…

— Mariette Hartley

I used to work as a volunteer in a hospice, but I don't have any nursing skills or cooking skills or anything,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I sprinkled a dose of Momma's seasoning into my cupped hand and dipped my tongue into the tiny pool of memories I…

— Michelle Stimpson

“As he talked, Pepino roughly diced a concasse into a stainless steel bowl, deftly peeling and deseeding three small, vine-ripened tomatoes in…

— Brian O'Reilly

Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it at all.

— Harriet Van Horne

I like a Blackpool breakfast, me - 20 ciggies and a pot of tea.

— Paul O'Grady

On how to make an egg roll: "Roll it nice and tight like a blunt."

— Coolio

The first of all considerations is that our meals shall be fun as well as fuel.

— Andre Simon

I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

— Carla Hall

Nothing beats cooking together, eating together and playing charades or Monopoly surrounded by my favorite people.

— Jill Zarin

She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

— Juvenal

Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.

— Art Spiegelman

Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says.

— Gordon Ramsay

Chemistry was my college interest. Cooking is about chemistry.

— Lidia Bastianich

Repeatedly opening the oven - or worse, taking out the turkey to baste it - slows down the momentum of cooking.

— Alex Guarnaschelli

The only person who cooks better than your mother, is her mother

— Charles Elba

I am my happiest self when generations in my family are getting together and I'm cooking.

— Kamala Harris

There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.

— Leo Buscaglia

And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.

— Luke Evans

The wife is the best cook, so I've been leaving the cooking to her.

— Joe Thornton