Cooking Quotes · Page 43

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

— Anonymous

For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.

— Wolfgang Puck

I'm slightly obsessed with the BBQ - I'll be cooking breakfast on it next.

— Gethin Jones

Cooking brings me close to Justine, my wife. I will take on a project and, if I get stuck, I can call…

— Rev. Run

If you go off the edge, it's not cooking anymore, so you have to push it to the limit... What are the…

— Ferran Adria

I actually really enjoy cooking. Gordon Ramsay taught me how to do a great beef Wellington.

— Brooklyn Beckham

Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted.

— Marilyn Kaytor

A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film…

— Alfred Hitchcock

A lot of people are still very afraid of spice. A lot of them don't know how to use the full potential…

— Maneet Chauhan

I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

— Eve Best

My dad and I used to play Prince, Lauryn Hill, Stevie Wonder, The Parliaments, and a lot of older funk bands while…

— Gabriella Wilson

I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan…

— Rachael Ray

Look, I'll do anything. I wanna do everything. I'll probably do a travel show at some point, I'd love to do some…

— Janelle James

My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and…

— George Washington

Crispy-skinned fish is an elusive thing. As soon as your filet makes contact with a hot pan, it wants to curl up,…

— Sohla El-Waylly

“I'm making lunch. Who wants pasta?" "We have leftover caramelized cauliflower and some cannellini beans soaking," Lois says. "There's a chunk of…

— Stacey Ballis

I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British…

— Heston Blumenthal

As for bread, I count that for nothin'. We always have bread and potatoes enough; but I hold a family to be…

— James F. Cooper

Here is a kitchen improvement, in return for Peacock. For roasting or basting a chicken, render down your fat or butter with…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

I think cooking is really key because it's the only way you're going to take back control of your diet from the…

— Michael Pollan

I'm lenient when it comes to nutrition rules. I enjoy cooking and baking in general, and I just try to eat whole,…

— Kelley O'Hara

My wife was born and raised in Italy until she was about 9, and then she came to America, and her mom…

— Bill Rancic

The difference between good and bad cookery can scarcely be more strikingly shown than in the manner in which sauces are prepared…

— Eliza Acton

High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?

— Anita Manning

The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.

— David Chang

I prefer cooking to baking. Baking, to me, is very precise, and it's about perfection.

— Ree Drummond

I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins.

— Carol Burnett

If cooking isn't fun for you, then do whatever it takes to make it fun.

— Chris Morocco

The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.

— Fernand Point

Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you.

— Rebecca Wells

A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

— Voltaire

Leave the eggs to bathe for 15 minutes in the hot water like a sexy Swedish chick in a natural mineral sauna.

— Coolio

I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

— Mark Twain

Everybody talks about the internet being the ultimate repository of cooking knowledge. But it's not. It sucks.

— Jonathan Gold

Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery.

— Samuel Johnson

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

— George Eliot

Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter.

— James Russell Lowell

“Reading is Intriguing...it can take you on a great Adventure!”

— M. Ann Machen Pritchard

There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.

— Nigel Slater