Cooking Quotes · Page 41

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

— Craig Claiborne

Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.

— Betty Ford

I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!

— Anonymous

I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don't mind…

— Paula Cole

An African man should not do anything called housework or cooking.

— Fela Kuti

I've always liked food, and I've always been interested in cooking and stuff like that.

— Luke Pasqualino

I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.

— Erma Bombeck

Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

— Roy Blount, Jr

I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a…

— Nicole Scherzinger

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of…

— Jonathan Swift

All the homeschooling parents I know meet on a regular basis with other families. They organize field trips, cooking classes, reading clubs…

— Quinn Cummings

I can still enjoy the foods I like I just eat much smaller portions now. And of course Ive had to give…

— Della Reese

I suppose I might be a player-coach nowadays. I'm a great teacher, and I enjoy teaching. But I'm glad I got injured…

— Gordon Ramsay

Cooking is one of those things that is universal to people. And any time you can teach somebody a way to connect…

— Damaris Phillips

Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a…

— Patrick Duffy

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any…

— Mary Antin

If he desired to know about automobiles, he would, without question, study diligently about automobiles. If his wife desired to be a…

— Leo Buscaglia

The traditional fast food model is built on buying the cheapest ingredients - and that usually means poor-quality, heavily processed foods. But…

— Steve Ells

the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a…

— Nancy Mitford

In cooking I found my mentor in this great chef, Albert Roux. I think this is a very important thing in life,…

— Paul Rankin

Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her…

— Pat Conroy

What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe, and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of…

— John Ruskin

What I love about 'The Chew' is that we have these celebrities come on, and you get to see them in a…

— Carla Hall

Unlike tongs, these tweezer tongs are slim and compact, fitting into any tool crock, drawer, or even apron pocket if youre all…

— Sohla El-Waylly

People are in a hurry. They don't want to look at a long list of ingredients. Cooking is terribly hard work.

— Ruth Glick

English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.

— Jay Rayner

...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.

— E. M. Forster

Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

— Ruth Reichl

But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

My mum was slightly disgruntled with cooking and being in the kitchen.

— Nadiya Hussain

Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.

— Diana Vreeland

Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.

— Spike Milligan

I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show.

— Christopher Walken

I guess cows aren't into the four food groups, especially when they are two of them.

— Anthony Ward Clark

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

— Ambrose Bierce

“What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”

— Anonymous

One of the most meditative times of my day is when I'm cooking.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.

— Harry James

I really don't limit myself in any way. I just search for great flavors and marriages wherever they come from.

— Geoffrey Zakarian

Growth springs from better recipes, not just from more cooking.

— Paul Romer