Food has always been in my life. Being born in Ethiopia, where there was a lack of food, and then really cooking… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really… — Thomas Keller Copy Share Image
In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
My son would walk to the refrigerator-freezer and fling both doors open and stand there until the hairs in his nose iced… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I never fancied broiling fowls; - though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
For me the best food in the world is New British. It's quite classical cooking with really simple but good-quality ingredients. I… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
I think authenticity is important whichever homeland you're from but one of the lovely things about British cooking is that we adopt… — Jamie Oliver Copy Share Image
Yoga has trimmed my body in a way that the gym never could. I used to be a gym rat, but I… — Giada De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
“Once the apartment was ready, Portia had begun to plan out what foods they would showcase in this little glimpse into a… — Linda Francis Lee Copy Share Image
I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
If you salt a chicken the day before cooking, it starts to break down the cell structure of the meat and allows… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
It's one thing to execute dishes on your own time for family and friends, but quite another to perform and be judged… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
IMBECILE!" the chef shouted. "Next time why don't you just put your whole HAND in the food, hey? Yes, your whole hand,… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Bass players and drummers are like brothers, working in the basement, cooking up the groove. If they don't lock together with the… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
Whatever I do, whether it's cooking shows, books or events, the details count and that's what sets me apart from other food… — Rachel Khoo Copy Share Image
One pillar of my cooking is that salad dressing is sacred and that you always make it with the most delicious oil… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
At some point of my life I've always fantasized that I'd be a boxing champion of the 160-pound division. Or a chef,… — Pedro Capo Copy Share Image
We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another.… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
I'm not very good at cooking, and I'm away all the time, and I like transient living. I get really itchy feet… — Alison Goldfrapp Copy Share Image
It is a fundamental fact that no cook, however creative and capable, can produce a dish of a quality any higher than… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
My mother-in-law is an awesome cook, but I have grown up eating the food cooked by my mother. I must say that… — Ashish Vidyarthi Copy Share Image
I don't like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo… — Pearl Bailey Copy Share Image
When you meet someone, ask about what hobby they have, not what they do. People always ask me about cooking, but I… — Wolfgang Puck Copy Share Image
Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than… — Patience Gray Copy Share Image
I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One of the things we say... is, 'Do what you know helps you.' And so for me, that might be painting. For… — Karen Pence Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm a brilliant cook, I see baking as a very different thing. I can cook savoury things - cooking is just… — Lucy Beaumont Copy Share Image
When I'm in the country with all of the kids around and cooking, that's when I'm most relaxed. When I'm in the… — Kate Moss Copy Share Image
It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to… — George Nelson Copy Share Image
I used to sleep in the desert once every week, now it is every two weeks, most of the time alone. It's… — Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Copy Share Image
You don't learn knife skills at cooking school, because they give you only six onions and no matter how hard you focus… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
