Cooking Quotes · Page 25

I love cooking; it's a very good way to get your mind off things.

— David Cameron

I have enough on my plate between cooking and my dad guilting me.

— Po - The Dragon Warrior

I love cooking. I like to make lasagna - it's authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue.

— Sullivan Stapleton

Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

— Roy Blount, Jr

People are in a hurry. They don't want to look at a long list of ingredients. Cooking is terribly hard work.

— Ruth Glick

English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.

— Jay Rayner

...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.

— E. M. Forster

Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

— Ruth Reichl

All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race…

— Pete Seeger

French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food…

— Michael Pollan

It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as…

— Ted Allen

“Cooking was something women did to nourish and nurture their families, whereas for men it was largely something they did professionally to…

— Padma Lakshmi

In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes…

— Bob Blumer

There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning…

— Rene Redzepi

Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred…

— M. F. K. Fisher

Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I give myself different roles. I think in different ways on different days. Sometimes I think of it as cooking - different…

— Joe Bradley

By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which…

— John Evelyn

The process was remarkably cathartic. I'd sit and listen to my father's voice - having not heard some of these tapes for…

— Jennifer Grant

I think authenticity is important whichever homeland you're from but one of the lovely things about British cooking is that we adopt…

— Jamie Oliver

I love pork. I love a good BLT. I know that sounds horrible but I do. I'm a total foodie. I love…

— Bob Bergen

[I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the hang of…

— Marya Hornbacher

Like last year I took Advance Foods class (which is like cooking for nerds) after lunch, and so I usually took a…

— Christopher Moore

“As I stand there, staring absently at the stirring pot on the wall, I remember Greg’s words all those years ago: No…

— Sasha Martin

But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.

— Diana Vreeland

My mum was slightly disgruntled with cooking and being in the kitchen.

— Nadiya Hussain

Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.

— Spike Milligan

I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show.

— Christopher Walken

I guess cows aren't into the four food groups, especially when they are two of them.

— Anthony Ward Clark

“What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”

— Anonymous

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

— Ambrose Bierce

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

— Andy Rooney

Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds.

— Michael Moss

Christmas dinner, when you're the one cooking it, is an oddly spiritual gesture.

— Grace Dent

I like eggs. My favorite way of cooking eggs is old school French.

— David Chang

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

— William Penn

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

— Craig Claiborne

Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.

— Betty Ford

I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!

— Anonymous