Cooking Quotes · Page 41

Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.

— Mason Cooley

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar.”

— Barbara "Cutie" Cooper

Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.

— Andy Rooney

I always loved cooking, from an early age. I kind of wanted to be a chef.

— Caleb Followill

Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.

— Isabella Beeton

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

— John Milton

So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.

— Paul McCartney

I love everything about food; if you took it away you would be depriving me of one of my greatest pleasures. I…

— Holly Willoughby

I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the…

— Raymond Burr

Whatever a scientist is doing - reading, cooking, talking, playing - science thoughts are always there at the edge of the mind.…

— Vivian Gornick

If I'm writing a book or doing something where I've got a lot of time at home, then cooking is always a…

— Gok Wan

My nanna was an extraordinary lady, and a good old-fashioned cook. She'd just be pottering around, cooking dinner for 25 people on…

— John Torode

My mom was a great cook so I always wanted to eat and make stuff. I did cooking in 4-H but it…

— Anne Burrell

There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie I…

— Kimberly Schlapman

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It's not a job, it's a passion. When you become…

— Gordon Ramsay

“I sliced the chicken with my fingers and put it into a small skillet to warm, separate a couple of eggs, and…

— Stacey Ballis

Do whatever rejuvenates you. It might be a cooking class, cocktails with the girls, or just private time with the hubby. We…

— Jada Pinkett Smith

Liz looks at the tissue box, which is decorated with drawings of snowmen engaged in various holiday activities. One of the snowmen…

— Gabrielle Zevin

The fun of cooking is the fun of communicating with people, even if it's just two people. As you're cooking, you're talking,…

— Frankie Avalon

Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high…

— Nathan Myhrvold

“Mark came home late one frozen Sunday carrying a bag of small, silver fish. They were smelts, locally known as icefish. He’d…

— Kristin Kimball

Never use an aluminum pot, pan, or utensil when cooking tomatoes - or any other soft metal items for that matter. The…

— Andrew Zimmern

Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition,…

— John Thorne

Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them, they will always tell you a story.

— Jose Andres

There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a…

— E. W. Howe

“Cooking and eating food outdoors makes it taste infinitely better than the same meal prepared and consumed indoors.”

— Fennel Hudson

“if god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.”

— Linda Henley

I want to make sure the cooking industry becomes more and more diverse.

— Marcus Samuelsson

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.

— Julia Child

Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

— Owen Wister

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

— Ambrose Bierce

I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

— Aristophanes

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.

— Stephen King

I don't do much cooking, but one of my favorite dishes to eat is my wife's macaroni and cheese.

— Ice Cube

Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.

— Daniel Boulud

Inexpensive and forgiving, kosher salt is fantastic for everyday cooking and tastes pure.

— Samin Nosrat

When I started to use fewer ingredients in my cooking, I was reminded of the uncomplicated flavours of my childhood.

— John Whaite

Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.

— Alain Ducasse

The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat

— Frank Muir