Cooking Quotes · Page 31

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.

— Carlo Petrini

In the last analysis, a pickle is a cucumber with experience.

— Irena Chalmers

The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

— Sophia Loren

If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup.

— Louis Diat

Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.

— Alice Waters

If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.

— Martial

Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy

— Anthony Powell

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it If youre convinced that cooking is drudgery, youre never going…

— James Beard

Larousse Gastronomique is a veritable dictionary of cooking terms for the French kitchen. If a chef were allowed only one book, this…

— Mario Batali

“Gran follows recipes by looking at picture—to the eye, delicious; to the tongue, boiled socks. Makes you wanna cry really.”

— Simon Cheshire

British cookbook author Elizabeth David led the most adventurous life but is widely credited with bringing to the fore the importance of…

— Melissa Leong

When you can touch the spirit, whatever that is, and when you can feel the love, and you can feel the song…

— Paul Rodgers

On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves.

— George Carlin

I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I…

— Todd English

I already enjoy cooking. I like different flavors and putting different things together and really like taking normal recipes to a higher…

— Queen Latifah

I did a show a long, long time ago called 'Cooking Mexican'. It was a studio show as opposed to on-location like…

— Rick Bayless

I could make a martyrly claim to having been the victim of childhood enslavement when I report that I started regularly cooking…

— Alice Dreger

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt…

— Berkeley Breathed

Even cooking at home, the difference between my wife cooking and me cooking is major. When my wife cooks, the kitchen looks…

— Tom Colicchio

“Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and…

— Joseph Conrad

If you track your organization's creativity by the number of brainstorms on your calendar, you're missing out. It's more important to capture…

— Charles Best

“He chopped a garlic, set a pot of water to boil on the stove, and poured a healthy amount of kosher salt…

— Jennifer Close

My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do…

— Vince Cable

How simple life is. We buy a fish. We are fed. We sit close to each other, we talk and then we…

— Gary Johnson

There's a heartiness, an enveloping and velvet nature to Swedish home cooking that I love.

— Andi Oliver

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

— Laurie Colwin

Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.

— William Lethaby

Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.

— Lewis Carroll

“I'm not a chef. I think in this country, we use the term very loosely. I'm a cook and a teacher.”

— Julia Child

“He who makes soup of thistles is ill qualified to discuss the savor of a stalled ox. Chinese Sayings”

— Helen Evans Brown

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

— Anthony Bourdain

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness...

— Ted Allen

I got off the plane - I was walking and cooking at the same time.

— Gabriel Iglesias

I got Soul Power, never took a cold shower, Never had a girlfriend the color of cooking flour.

— J-Ro

I live alone so I always just eat out. When I'm in another relationship, then maybe we'll start cooking together.

— Douglas Booth

Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are

— Curnonsky

I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.

— Michael Pollan

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

— Nora Ephron

After making the finals of 'Celebrity MasterChef' I know how tough cooking under pressure can be.

— Rylan Clark-Neal