I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds. — Michael Moss Copy Share Image
Christmas dinner, when you're the one cooking it, is an oddly spiritual gesture. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
I can't cook. I don't have the right brain for it, somehow. I can't walk into a room and tidy it up.… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
It's quite weird knocking that out of them and telling them to forget cooking for chefs; forget what chefs say about your… — Gordon Ramsay Copy Share Image
I think that Jamie Oliver did more good for the nation's cooking when he was just cooking than by telling us what… — Gregg Wallace Copy Share Image
And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing… — Juana Inés de la Cruz Copy Share Image
My childhood favourite is mum's shepherd's pie, Yorkshire pudding and roasted potatoes. I remember coming home from school and going to the… — Gordon Ramsay Copy Share Image
I would like to be known as an artist. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. Im interested in all of… — Mark Salling Copy Share Image
I like to have a few staff round for a glass of wine although if I'm feeding people I try and leave… — Rick Stein Copy Share Image
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
My daughter Alexandra once told me, "Mother, you're a pioneer. Now, hardly anybody cooks, but you were one of the first to… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Let me start with a confession: I don't enjoy cooking. The reason I usually do it at home is not because I'm… — Mark Barrowcliffe Copy Share Image
I can tell in two minutes if I should hire someone in the kitchen. Two minutes. It's his desire. It's that open-eyed,… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Boxing is individual, although there's a team concept because you need a great corner, you need a great trainer, you need a… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
“as I [Eve] was the only cook in all Christendom at the time, the idea of not coming home to dinner never… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The workman mindful of success, therefore, will naturally direct his attention to the faultless preparation of his stock, and in order to… — Auguste Escoffier Copy Share Image
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