Cooking Quotes · Page 27

If it's a cooking based reality show I would love to do it because I love cooking.

— Ishita Dutta

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.

— Cyra McFadden

Everyone seems to ask me the same 10 questions, and high on the list is, 'What pans should I be cooking with…

— Andrew Zimmern

Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man.

— Sylvia Plath

Scotch Whisky is about the only thing left that is guaranteed to bring comfort to mankind.

— Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby

Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts.

— Fannie Farmer

Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

— Alexander Pope

It's unbelievable how much I've learned and how my love of cooking has grown.

— Judi Love

I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has…

— Shahrukh Khan

The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under…

— Emile Zola

I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they…

— Steve Albini

In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with…

— Bryan Volpenhein

At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes,…

— M. F. K. Fisher

People see me on TV two and three times a day, and see me cooking all these wonderfully Southern, fattening dishes. That's…

— Paula Deen

People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding…

— Fran Lebowitz

If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in…

— Christian Louboutin

The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The…

— Richard Baxter

Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air,…

— Laura Esquivel

I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking,…

— Cat Cora

For wok cooking, use oils with a high smoke point and low polyunsaturated-fat content: grapeseed oil, peanut oil, etc. Sesame oil and…

— Andrew Zimmern

They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled…

— Ayn Rand

I feel like the feminine has been a little undervalued. We all have to get our own jobs and make our own…

— Kirsten Dunst

I think the thing about cooking from tins for me that I really enjoyed was... the convenience of it, the slight entertainment…

— Jack Monroe

In America, even your menus have the gift of language… The Chef's own Vienna Roast. A hearty, rich meat loaf, gently seasoned…

— Laurie Lee

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

— Phyllis Diller

May your rice never burn,' is the New Year's greeting of the Chinese. 'May it never be gummy,' is ours.

— Irma S. Rombauer

It's food too fine for angels, yet come, take and eat thy fill!

— Edward Taylor

It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.

— Robert Hughes

For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.

— Anthony Bourdain

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

— Tom Stoppard

“Part of the power of home cooking is that everything tastes better when someone else makes it for you.”

— Alex Witchel

The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

— Adelle Davis

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

— Socrates

Cooking is physical; it's easier to learn than playing golf. You chop food, you pan fry it - what else is there…

— Alvin Leung

“A dinner made by a great cook is a vision of the world to come.”

— Patricia Storace

Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can't believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry.

— Mike Kalin

By cooking with your kids, you can help them understand that food is a powerful tool in connecting human beings.

— Lidia Bastianich

“hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling...”

— Herman Melville

Cooking is about love, really, and cooking for your children is all about caring for them, building relationships.

— Ainsley Harriott

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

— Tom Jaine