Cooking Quotes · Page 40

Ideally, we should be controlling what we eat by cooking for ourselves.

— David Kirsch

I like cooking - I make a good stir-fry and the family likes it when I make stewed chicken and macaroni and…

— Marion Jones

Who says I can't cook? You've obviously never tasted my cereal!

— Anonymous

It's like cooks don't watch cooking programmes - I suppose maybe comedians don't watch comedy shows.

— Bob Mortimer

Advice is like cooking-you should try it before you feed it to others.

— Croft M. Pentz

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

— Jeff Smith

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

— James Beard

I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.

— Alton Brown

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to…

— A. E. Housman

Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

I would love to be better at cooking but I hate cleaning up afterwards. I love the process of putting everything together…

— Mark Webber

The French peasant cuisine is at the basis of the culinary art. By this I mean it is composed of honest elements…

— Alexandre Dumaine

“My formula for everyday cooking: keep it simple yet satisfying, the quicker and easier the better, use real food ingredients, and include…

— Alyce Alexandra

“I want them to bite into a cookie, and think of me, and smile. Food is love. Food has a power. I…

— Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter

For me, cooking is practical. That's the core of an engineer. Engineers are very practical designers and creative people. Every single thing…

— Alvin Leung

I wanted to give my readers instructions but also the ability to make their own decisions and have fun with cooking. I…

— Tabitha Brown

It’s just starting. I think it’s going to take another year and a half to get up to critical mass, but everybody…

— Andrew Zimmern

You know, this is really a way of cooking. It's not my way. I'm deeply influenced by the Mediterranean way of being.…

— Sally Schneider

I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to…

— Ted Allen

The first thing Julian wanted to do in life, well, before he wanted to be an artist and then a musician, was…

— Cynthia Lennon

Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -…

— John Keats

I'd love to cook. It's something I've got into since I've grown older. I'm mates with Jamie Oliver and he's been a…

— Jason Flemyng

Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find…

— Nora Ephron

My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled.

— Tyler Florence

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

— Siobhan Fahey

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

— Maya Angelou

My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.

— Woody Allen

Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.

— Graham Greene

The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

— Joseph Addison

The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament.

— Monica Baldwin

Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.

— Anne Burrell

I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

— Ted Allen

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

— Frank Fairfield

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

— David Mamet

When I'm not touring I really enjoy the ease of cooking at home.

— Kate Nash

“Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end.”

— Robert Hellenga

Peace and happiness, begin, geographically, where garlic is used in cooking.

— Marcel Boulestin

Life is like cooking: before choosing what you love, try everything... ♥

— Paulo Coelho