I learned to cook by watching and helping my mother in the…

Even though I'm big on recipes, I love to make up my own dishes and when you take a risk in the kitchen, you…

— Nina Dobrev

“These older women knew their place, staying tucked away, fading into the background. Mostly, they tended the kitchen, where they learned to make themselves…

— Miriam Karmel

I think it's really important for every young person to work in a kitchen because you learn a life skill.

— Marco Pierre White

The best way to feel at ease in the kitchen is to learn at someone's knee.

— Laurie Colwin

Too often contestants make dishes that they would have never done or would never want to eat.

— Antonia Lofaso

A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for Friends; and when the Family dines alone, the fore or hind Quarter will makea…

— Jonathan Swift

I go to my mom's house and she'll make me do the dishes or clean up.

— Gabriella Wilson

Yes, I remember as a child, I would potter around my mother in the kitchen and want to participate in everything she was doing.…

— Nana Patekar

My interest in theatre and storytelling began in my mother's kitchen. It was a meeting place for my mother's large circle of friends.

— Lynn Nottage

My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.

— Gail Simmons

It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet…

— Robertson Davies

I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read…

— Kamala Harris

I learned to cook because I want to know about the food and the ingredients going into my family's bodies.

— Kendra Wilkinson

I learned to cook in self-defense. My wife doesn't know what a kitchen is. In the first month of our marriage, she broiled lamb…

— Alan King

I would probably never have learned to cook.

— Elizabeth David