Cooking Quotes · Page 23

"Grandmother" doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

— Carine Roitfeld

If you're given champagne at lunch, there's a catch somewhere.

— 1st Viscount Lyons Richard Lyons

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

— Henry Miller

Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.

— Bobby Flay

The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.

— David Chang

I prefer cooking to baking. Baking, to me, is very precise, and it's about perfection.

— Ree Drummond

I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins.

— Carol Burnett

If cooking isn't fun for you, then do whatever it takes to make it fun.

— Chris Morocco

Electrify your life! With heating and cooling, cooking and travel, and you will be doing a lot to help the future of…

— Mark Ruffalo

Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible.

— Catharine Beecher

Food is so personal - I mean someone is talking to you when people are cooking for you. I like to hear…

— Anthony Bourdain

I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance…

— Ina Garten

Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards.

— J. B. Morton

“If the environmental crisis is ultimately a crisis of character, as Wendell Berry told us way back in the 1970's, then sooner…

— Michael Pollan

We never got much in the way of material things, but if you can be spoiled by good cooking, my mom spoiled…

— John Isner

One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to…

— Michael Pollan

Little things like making clothes, baking bread, cooking, even useless things like bird-watching, sketching flowers, playing guitar in the home - that…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Pork - no animal is more used for nourishment and none more indispensable in the kitchen; employed either fresh or salt, all…

— Alexis Soyer

When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now,…

— Meryl Streep

I loved the cooking; that was what I was passionate about, but getting to watch the guests eat - because you could…

— Michael Mina

Really the only motivation is through deliciousness; cooking great food that people want to eat again. I want them all to achieve…

— Richard Blais

I find cooking very sensual. I love getting in there with my hands instead of utensils. With all of the textures and…

— Jacqueline Obradors

“During this hour in the waking streets I felt at ease, at peace; my body, which I despised, operated like a machine.…

— Alice Jamieson

Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself…

— Bill Nighy

The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.

— Fernand Point

Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you.

— Rebecca Wells

A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

— Voltaire

I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

— Mark Twain

Leave the eggs to bathe for 15 minutes in the hot water like a sexy Swedish chick in a natural mineral sauna.

— Coolio

Everybody talks about the internet being the ultimate repository of cooking knowledge. But it's not. It sucks.

— Jonathan Gold

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

— Umberto Eco

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

— Anonymous

For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.

— Wolfgang Puck

Cooking brings me close to Justine, my wife. I will take on a project and, if I get stuck, I can call…

— Rev. Run

I'm slightly obsessed with the BBQ - I'll be cooking breakfast on it next.

— Gethin Jones

I actually really enjoy cooking. Gordon Ramsay taught me how to do a great beef Wellington.

— Brooklyn Beckham

If you go off the edge, it's not cooking anymore, so you have to push it to the limit... What are the…

— Ferran Adria

Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted.

— Marilyn Kaytor

High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?

— Anita Manning