Cooking Quotes · Page 44

“Somewhere close behind air and water is the need for food.”

— L.J. Martin

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

— Elizabeth David

I do most of the cooking. I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

— Tom Paulin

My mother was the worst cook ever. In school, when we traded lunches, I had to throw in an article of clothing.

— Rita Rudner

I watch the Food Network with my kids. We - yeah, I - I - I generally don't admit that, but I…

— Rick Santorum

Dried peas and beans, being rather on the dull side, much like dull people respond readily to the right contacts.

— Irma S. Rombauer

I love cooking and having people over and it means you don't have to get a babysitter.

— Holly Willoughby

My cooking is incredibly haphazard, but I've never pretended it was anything else.

— Sophie Dahl

Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking…

— Louis de Bernieres

A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Just over 800 people were gathered around the cooking stage, all eager to learn about my five-minute flavor cooking. The demonstration had…

— Rocco DiSpirito

Classic Recipe for Roast Beef: 1 large Roast of beef 1 small Roast of beef Take the two roasts and put them…

— Gracie Allen

It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more…

— Laura Fraser

If I did one thing, I made cooking rock n' roll: I made it sexy. I made young kids from rich backgrounds…

— Marco Pierre White

The earliest recollection I have of being in the kitchen and cooking was in the third grade, and we lived in Germany.…

— Steve Ells

I'm very Italian, so I love cooking for friends. Whether it's Valentine's Day and my boyfriend and girlfriends' boyfriends are away, or…

— Sofia Milos

If you are killing a chicken and cooking a chicken, it has to taste like chicken. Veal has to taste like veal.…

— Joel Robuchon

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality…

— Gordon Ramsay

“Around me shone the kitchen I'd worked in each day: the copper pans hung neatly, the scratched wooden table and neat blue…

— Martine Bailey

If I'm cooking dinner for my hubby or designing a line or selling on QVC, I try to do it in an…

— Khloe Kardashian

Almost anything can be stretched to serve more people by being added to a white sauce or canned gravy or undiluted or…

— Jo Coudert

'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me…

— Alton Brown

I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Cooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors,…

— Michael Pollan

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.

— Anonymous

I don't know cooking at all, but I think I can make simple tea.

— Guru Randhawa

Vegan food is not only good for you, the animals, and the planet, but cooking vegan can be simple, easy, and fun.

— Sharon Gannon

I don't enjoy cooking when I'm high. And I don't want to be eating garbage because then I'll feel gross.

— Ilana Glazer

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

— Katherine Mansfield

I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.

— Jack Dee

I will pursue my passion of cooking every day until my hands fall off and I lose all sense of smell and…

— Nicole Trunfio

The real thing people miss in vegetarian cooking is fat. Fat is flavor. It is delicious.

— Damaris Phillips

Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.

— Fran Lebowitz

[On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.

— Marcella Hazan

For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.

— Thomas Keller

Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

— Alfred Austin

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

— Sinclair Lewis

I think in the same way when I'm cooking, when I'm gardening, when I'm choosing fabrics. It's a way of living.

— Dries van Noten

I'm like a full domestic mom. I like cooking and cleaning and taking care of the kids.

— Susan Tedeschi

I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.

— Aaron Taylor-Johnson