Cooking Quotes · Page 28

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

— Leopold Kronecker

Summer chutneys, to me, are those that are light and usually involve almost no cooking.

— Maneet Chauhan

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

— Ambrose Bierce

“...truly amazing cooking isn't really so much about technique, it's about heart and soul...”

— Stacey Ballis

Cooking and eating are among the most important ways we weave days into lives.

— Crescent Dragonwagon

No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.

— Eden Phillpotts

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than…

— Adelle Davis

I tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening.

— Udo Kier

I’m awfully sorry for people who are taken in by all of today’s dietary mumbo jumbo. They are not getting any enjoyment…

— Julia Child

YouTube and other sites will bring together all the diverse media which matters to you, from videos of family and friends to…

— Chad Hurley

I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen, that's how I know anything about cooking. I've always wanted to go to…

— Serena Williams

Typically, the thinner the gauge of a pan, the more intense the hot and cool spots that form on its interior, which…

— J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the…

— Nigella Lawson

In Tijuana, we have cuisine from every region of Mexico and cooks from all over cooking in all of the restaurants, so…

— Marcela Valladolid

When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment…

— Andy Rooney

What gives me the most joy is cooking for other people. I look up five different recipes from five different sources to…

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Speaking of food, English cuisine has received a lot of unfair criticism over the years, but the truth is that it can…

— Dave Barry

I learned a beautiful way of cooking lamb when I was in Morocco, which is a technique where I poach it first…

— Andi Oliver

I've long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would…

— James Beard

If you are the kind of person who makes homemade chicken stock on the regular and keeps it frozen in various sized…

— Claire Saffitz

What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith…

— Garrison Keillor

I know the crew so well, so I forget I'm being filmed. It's like cooking with a friend in the kitchen -…

— Nigella Lawson

When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks…

— Bernard DeVoto

I think it's a real shame so many schools have taken out the hands-on classes. Art, music, auto mechanics, cooking, sewing, these…

— Temple Grandin

You wouldn't know it but I'm no good at... cooking. My chef does that.

— Carolina Herrera

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

— Charlie Trotter

Why take pride in cooking, when they don't take pride in eating?

— Erma Bombeck

“Remember to add the most important ingredient to every recipe you make - your love!”

— Diana Silva

A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.

— Lawrence Durrell

The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.

— George Ellwanger

If you're not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef.

— Michael Strahan

I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families.

— Anonymous

Cooking and film are completely different - but I'd rather stay in the kitchen than be in movies.

— Nobu Matsuhisa

Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.

— Alexis Soyer

I break out in hives whenever I hear the word disrupt applied to cooking.

— Chris Morocco

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

— W. S. Gilbert

Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!

— John Smith

I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities.

— Euripides

A couple of my friends told me to get into cooking but I have not been able to get myself into the…

— Mithali Raj

The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken.

— Julia Child