I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking. — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets. — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
When I'm in a restaurant, I don't eat red meat. It doesn't taste like anything. But if a friend of mine is… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
The only kind of restaurant I could imagine doing would be the extraordinarily snooty restaurant with three or four tables, and I… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way. — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
I hate 'foodie' because it's cute, like pretty much all diminutives associated with eating. 'Veggies,' 'sammies,' 'parm.' I eat food, and I… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Toast is bread made delicious and useful. Un-toasted bread is okay for children's sandwiches and sopping up barbecue sauce, but for pretty… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
When people are absurdly tall, they command everyone's attention when they walk into a room. Nobody's ever dismissive of somebody for being too tall. — Steve Albini Copy Share
Clip your year-end column and put it away for 10 years. See if you don’t feel like an idiot when you reread it. — Steve Albini Copy Share
I'm only interested in working on records that legitimately reflect the band's own perception of their music and existence. If you commit yourselves to… — Steve Albini Copy Share
You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any… — Steve Albini Copy Share
The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most… — Steve Albini Copy Share
By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum — Steve Albini Copy Share
Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They're one of those bands that operated in… — Steve Albini Copy Share
I feel like bands should be growing, living, functioning entities and to crystallize a band into a single album, and for that to be… — Steve Albini Copy Share
When I'm in a restaurant, I don't eat red meat. It doesn't taste like anything. But if a friend of mine is grilling stuff… — Steve Albini Copy Share
Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying… — Steve Albini Copy Share
I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's… — Steve Albini Copy Share
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment — Steve Albini Copy Share
I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful… — Steve Albini Copy Share
There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me because that industry didn't operate for the benefit of the… — Steve Albini Copy Share
