Cooking Quotes · Page 35

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

— Alexis Soyer

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

— Udo Kier

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

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

— Diana Silva

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

— Erma Bombeck

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

— Mithali Raj

Moms don't just sit there cooking everyday and aren't always there to greet their kids at the school bus.

— Kate Gosselin

Larousse is an invaluable tool for any cook. I've used this great resource all throughout my cooking career, and of course I…

— Thomas Keller

Once I tune in to the fact that my family receives my cooking for them as an act of love - that…

— Joanna Gaines

My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and…

— George Washington

Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in…

— Michael Pollan

I'm not trying to be anything other than myself. I appreciate any type of restaurant or cooking, and the main goal is…

— Dominique Crenn

I love the smell of the Earth. I'm a good cook my friends say. I love cooking for my friends. So I'm…

— Udo Kier

A lot of people are still very afraid of spice. A lot of them don't know how to use the full potential…

— Maneet Chauhan

I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

— Eve Best

With a pie, the crust is a real delicacy. It's very hard to get it just right because it's got to be…

— Keri Russell

Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure…

— Julia Child

The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody…

— Karel Capek

I can make things, but I don't cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other…

— Paula Poundstone

My dad's cooking was magic in the kitchen. But eventually over the years, his personality changed and his ability to remember recipes…

— Tess Gerritsen

If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I cooked Christmas dinner for sixty people in St Petersburg once. Not on my own, and I think my bit was being…

— Tim Key

In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art…

— Julia Child

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

— Julia Child

So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.

— Auguste Escoffier

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

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

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

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

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

— E. M. Forster