Cooking Quotes · Page 24

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

— Maya Angelou

I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.

— Alton Brown

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

— Siobhan Fahey

My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled.

— Tyler Florence

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

— James Beard

My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.

— Woody Allen

The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament.

— Monica Baldwin

The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

— Joseph Addison

Every time we get into an argument about cooking or laundering shirts, she shakes her Oscar at me, and I'm dead in…

— Paul Newman

You have to be very careful how you insert new stuff, 'cause people want to hear the old stuff. It's like cooking,…

— Eric Burdon

A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.

— Samuel Johnson

Sure, I could have lots of people who do the cooking, the driving, all that jazz - but I would be unhappy.…

— Kate Winslet

“To begin cooking duck at one in the morning is one of the finest acts of madness that can be undertaken by…

— Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration…

— Barry Hannah

I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from…

— Jacques Pepin

I want to promote pastry. Pastry has always been in the background - it's always cooking, cooking, cooking on programs, and pastry…

— Adriano Zumbo

Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at…

— Christopher Isherwood

Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it…

— Frederic Farrar

Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. Women do kids. Women…

— Mo Ibrahim

When men come home, it is more about being part of the family, being with the children, spending more time with the…

— Penny Lancaster

My eighth-grade year, I was home-schooled. I'd basically wake up, go to the gym in the morning, do a little bit of…

— Jacob Dalton

If you track your organization's creativity by the number of brainstorms on your calendar, you're missing out. It's more important to capture…

— Charles Best

“Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and…

— Joseph Conrad

My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do…

— Vince Cable

Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.

— Graham Greene

I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

— Ted Allen

Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.

— Anne Burrell

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

— David Mamet

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

When I'm not touring I really enjoy the ease of cooking at home.

— Kate Nash

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

— Frank Fairfield

Peace and happiness, begin, geographically, where garlic is used in cooking.

— Marcel Boulestin

“Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end.”

— Robert Hellenga

“I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar.”

— Barbara "Cutie" Cooper

Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.

— Andy Rooney

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.

— Mason Cooley

Life is like cooking: before choosing what you love, try everything... ♥

— Paulo Coelho

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

— John Milton

Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.

— Isabella Beeton