Cooking Quotes · Page 39

Summer chutneys, to me, are those that are light and usually involve almost no cooking.

— Maneet Chauhan

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

— Ambrose Bierce

No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.

— Eden Phillpotts

Cooking and eating are among the most important ways we weave days into lives.

— Crescent Dragonwagon

“...truly amazing cooking isn't really so much about technique, it's about heart and soul...”

— Stacey Ballis

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than…

— Adelle Davis

Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

— Alexander Pope

It's unbelievable how much I've learned and how my love of cooking has grown.

— Judi Love

I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates…

— Martin Yan

I do a fair amount of evening shows at Fox so am often there until about 8, and then I go out…

— Jessica Tarlov

Cooking is like love. You don't have to be particularly beautiful or very glamorous, or even very exciting to fall in love.…

— Laurie Colwin

This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must…

— Jonathan Swift

I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already…

— Robert Orben

We want to make the old fast food model irrelevant. We want to make great ingredients and classic cooking techniques accessible to…

— Steve Ells

I wanted to master the art of cooking. Maybe, when I slow down and do one or two films a year, I…

— Dhanush

I don't do much cooking because it's impossible when you travel so much. You go grocery shopping, buy everything, and then get…

— Winnie Harlow

The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with…

— Elizabeth David

One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to…

— Aaron Sorkin

Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily…

— Ivan Krastev

Maybe I should do this for y-" (Samantha) "No, I'm cooking. If you want to be helpful, you can bring me my…

— Lynsay Sands

The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice…

— Abraham Hayward

“Such is the indomitable spirit of saffron that even after years stale on my chest, it brought the rice to life with…

— Eli Brown

Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is…

— Julia Child

May your rice never burn,' is the New Year's greeting of the Chinese. 'May it never be gummy,' is ours.

— Irma S. Rombauer

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

— Phyllis Diller

It's food too fine for angels, yet come, take and eat thy fill!

— Edward Taylor

It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.

— Robert Hughes

For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.

— Anthony Bourdain

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

— Tom Stoppard

“Part of the power of home cooking is that everything tastes better when someone else makes it for you.”

— Alex Witchel

The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

— Adelle Davis

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

— Socrates

There's way more pressure cooking for cooks than rowing at the Olympics.

— Bryan Volpenhein

I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

— Maya Angelou

I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.

— Will Ferrell

Women's cooking has always had a big influence on me personally.

— Anonymous

Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.

— Alton Brown

Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.

— Samuel Johnson

A cook is creative, marrying ingredients in the way a poet marries words.

— Roger Verge