Cooking Quotes · Page 39

“But since soup mainly involves tossing everything in a pot and waiting, it's one of my better dishes.”

— Suzanne Collins

We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“A good spice often deceives us into thinking that someone is a good cook.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I…

— Gustave Flaubert

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

— Charles Bowden

Cooking is like doing yoga. There is a lot of satisfaction in cooking food for others.

— Nana Patekar

And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I'm not a chef. But I'm passionate about food - the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it.

— Zac Posen

I train my chefs with a blindfold. I'll get my sous chef and myself to cook a dish. The young chef would…

— Gordon Ramsay

My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's…

— Glen Hansard

Some nights, a romantic dinner can be killed by having to do dishes afterward, so it probably suits you better to go…

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I've always been one of those people who romanticized cooking, but the few attempts I'd made in my life resulted in friends'…

— Drew Barrymore

Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing…

— Margaret Visser

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury…

— George Bernard Shaw

I think cooking has the same creative process as designing, where you have the ingredients, you have the alchemy part of it,…

— Cynthia Rowley

Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher…

— Julian Baggini

I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate a wide diversity in…

— James Arthur

I love cooking, and I can make real good rajma chawal. It is a time consuming process and only for the consumption…

— Nimrat Kaur

I always liked the stress, the real high-stakes, get-the-orders-out line-cook job, as well as the ordering of the produce and everything -…

— Brian Reitzell

While there are many varieties of grills, each with their own virtues to be sure, I prefer the standard Weber kettle grill.…

— Barton Seaver

You can cook a limited number of sous vide recipes in a beer cooler, but if the person you're buying for wants…

— J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

“Many Detroiters, for example, are beginning to see urban agriculture as a real part of the solution; to grow things right where…

— Jaye Beeler

Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size.…

— Fran Lebowitz

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a…

— David Whyte

I do a lot of cooking; we eat a lot of fish, but I try not to make fattening things.

— Roger Moore

My hobby is cooking and I cooked because of you , all I want is you cook also for me.

— Mitch Alapan

Most pumpkin dishes involve scooping out the seeds, cutting off the skin, and chopping up the flesh before cooking.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

“I could smell the food fill up my hunger before the order was even placed.”

— Phindiwe Nkosi

I don't like cooking and don't cook until I am forced to. Then I expect everyone around to appreciate what I dish…

— Urmila Matondkar

There's so much that can be learned from French cooking, especially really traditional, more modest meals.

— Antoni Porowski

I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

— Red Smith

This is X-treme Chinese Cooking. X-citing, X-otic and X-traordinary.

— Alvin Leung

A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet.

— M. F. K. Fisher

Cooking grits and riding dick. Swear she the best chef around. Pop that p*ssy, now let me see you doo doo brown.

— Tyga

Actually, I'm happiest in Williams-Sonoma in New York. That's a wonderful cooking store.

— Blake Lively

Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.

— Mo Ibrahim

Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.

— Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Simple ingredients prepared in a simple way - that's the best way to take your everyday cooking to a higher level.

— Anonymous

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

— Epictetus

If I'm not driving my children somewhere, I'm cooking for them.

— Tess Daly