Cooking Quotes · Page 27

The avocado is native to the Mexican state of Puebla, which helps explain why it's so popular in Mexican cooking.

— Marcus Samuelsson

My mom's cooking was all about comfort, flavor, and plenty of butter. It was so hearty.

— Sonoya Mizuno

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and…

— Robert Frost

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

— Pliny the Elder

Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.

— Nicole Hollander

Conservatives claim [Hillary] Clinton campaign involved in satanic 'spirit cooking'.

— Bill Maher

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

— Julia Child

Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it at all.

— Harriet Van Horne

You should only do what you do - in my case, cooking - while you still love to do it. But if…

— Monica Galetti

“If God had created celery, it would only have two stalks, because that's the most that almost any recipe ever calls for.”

— skint foodie

“All the men I know add that “hands that prepared it” line. They must know it’s right complimentary, an incentive to keep…

— Vicki Covington

I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I…

— Marcia Gay Harden

There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say…

— Delia Smith

He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides…

— Charles Dickens

I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it's the most aspirational diet because it's so easy. It's quite simple, the…

— Vivienne Westwood

I started cooking around 9 years old. I would make crepes at home for my parents. By 15 years old, I had…

— Jacques Torres

“Having it all is just too much hassle. I'm not every-woman. I'm a working woman. And I'm not entirely sure I see…

— Amy Mowafi

“A chef’s magic is his ingredients, how he can substitute one for another, then break with convention by changing it all around…

— Karl Wiggins

“I look over the recipe again. It sounds very simple. You boil some rice in water like pasta, I can do that.…

— Stacey Ballis

I don't know that I have a favorite meal. When I'm cooking I'm thinking about the person I'm feeding and I want…

— Rachael Ray

“You have come nearer to mastering a good many aspects of cooking than anyone except a handful of great chefs, and some…

— Joan Reardon

My life at home gives me absolute joy. There are some days when, as soon as you've finished cooking breakfast and cleaning…

— Julia Roberts

Many call for cooking pasta directly in milk, a technique that works okay, but it can lead to scorching if you're not…

— J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

When I was first approached for 'Pass the Plate,' I was thrilled because I love to cook. And I love to cook…

— Brenda Song

I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event.

— Martina McBride

I don't have many hobbies or talents other than cooking, but I've always been good at figuring out a city.

— Roy Choi

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

— Samuel Johnson

I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe

— Mary-Kate Olsen

The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

— Victor Hugo

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

— Pearl S. Buck

PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

— Ambrose Bierce

Pretending you're the host of a cooking show, when you're home alone cooking.

— Anonymous

I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.

— Joely Fisher

No rules. Don't be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn't have to have rules. I don't like it that way.

— Masaharu Morimoto

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

— Elizabeth David

“Somewhere close behind air and water is the need for food.”

— L.J. Martin

I watch the Food Network with my kids. We - yeah, I - I - I generally don't admit that, but I…

— Rick Santorum

My mother was the worst cook ever. In school, when we traded lunches, I had to throw in an article of clothing.

— Rita Rudner

Dried peas and beans, being rather on the dull side, much like dull people respond readily to the right contacts.

— Irma S. Rombauer

I do most of the cooking. I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

— Tom Paulin