Cooking Quotes · Page 42

For me, I am very much a champion of home cooking and home cooks.

— Samin Nosrat

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.

— Jennifer Lee

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

— Sarah Zettel

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.

— Gordon Ramsay

The whole idea is to earn the flavor. No one gives it to you.

— Jamie Oliver

It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it.

— Alice Waters

In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.

— Curnonsky

I don't really time how long it steeps, but in general I don't plan much when it comes to tea or cooking.…

— Miranda Kerr

A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human…

— Maimonides

A perfect chutney needs patience. If you are cooking it, cook it on a low flame; the flavors come out the best…

— Maneet Chauhan

I thought my early attempts at cooking tofu went well, but, in hindsight, I realize that's because I was cooking for hungry,…

— Chris Morocco

I don't want to sound too mystical or weird but it's important to know what garlic smells like when it's cooking, or…

— Joel Salatin

Since we married, Peta's taken over a lot of my cooking and she's incredible. She'll do different meals for me and the…

— Mark Cavendish

In taking soup, it is necessary to avoid lifting too much in the spoon, or filling the mouth so full as almost…

— Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

The one reason why I got into cooking was because I wasn't good at anything else - not that I was good…

— David Chang

At home in Ghaziabad, everyone is a pure vegetarian. In fact, when I want to cook non-veg there, my mum shoos me…

— Suresh Raina

I would love to do a cookery show and cookery books. I'm not a professional cook, but I can definitely cook. I…

— Shilpa Shetty

For the timid or uninitiated, leaf-wrapped foods offer an ideal and gentle introduction to fire cooking. Liberated from the need to worry…

— Samin Nosrat

From my table inside I watch the glamorous women outside who are lunching on Spa Cobb salads without blue cheese or dressing.…

— Ann Patchett

“I understood that if ever one wanted to live with someone you cooked for them and they came running. But then it…

— Nigel Slater

Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown…

— Ron Ben-Israel

When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

— Ambrose Bierce

I wanted to come up with a hybrid show of sorts that wasn't your traditional 'dump and stir' type of cooking show.

— Debi Mazar

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

— Benjamin Franklin

One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food

— Edna Lewis

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.

— Henry David Thoreau

Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.

— Laozi

Because I actually like cooking for people, people like what I cook for them.

— Tom Junod

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

— Miguel de Cervantes

I have to go out for lunch and dinner because I can't cook. I need a woman to come and save me…

— Carrot Top

“No, I don't want you to leave. I'm just grabbing your coat and nudging your toward the door for fun #AHOLE”

— Andy Ostrom

Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.

— Bert Greene

And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.

— Ogden Nash

“I have come to the conclusion that just as the Japanese live to work, Asians live to eat.”

— Anastacia Oaikhena

No matter what anyone says, my cooking is excellent, even the smoke alarm seems to be cheering me on!

— Anonymous

I like a Blackpool breakfast, me - 20 ciggies and a pot of tea.

— Paul O'Grady

Nothing beats cooking together, eating together and playing charades or Monopoly surrounded by my favorite people.

— Jill Zarin