Cooking Quotes · Page 5

Salt is white and pure - there is something holy in salt.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Peanut butter - the pâté of childhood.

— Florence Fabricant

Cooking fills the stomach, and music fills the mind.

— Asha Bhosle

I find that cooking is relaxing and makes me feel at home.

— Jimmy Barnes

I love my mom's cooking immensely.

— Roselyn Sanchez

An unwatched pot boils immediately.

— H. F. Ellis

I do not drink more than a sponge.

— Francois Rabelais

Make [food] simple and let things taste of what they are.

— Curnonsky

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

— William Penn

Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds.

— Michael Moss

Christmas dinner, when you're the one cooking it, is an oddly spiritual gesture.

— Grace Dent

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

— Andy Rooney

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

— Betty Ford

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

— Craig Claiborne

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

Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at…

— Patricia Richardson

The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends,…

— Emeril Lagasse

“. “And I stole some oxen jerky out of Bercelak’s bag. He makes the best oxen jerky.” “Bercelak the Vengeful cooks?” “Aye.…

— G.A. Aiken

I say time and time again - yes, cooking is wonderful to cook for your loved ones and see them eat the…

— Ainsley Harriott

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from…

— Anthony Minghella

Cooking has always brought me a happiness that I didn't think was available. I just fire up the stove, and things start…

— Paula Deen

As for cooking, I like making lasagne and spaghetti Bolognese, I have perfected my porridge, and I like making Sunday roasts.

— Kelvin Fletcher

What's up?" Christian asked. "Need some hairstyling tips?" "Tips you stole from me? No thanks. But I hear you've got a really…

— Richelle Mead

From a young age, I understood the idea of balanced flavor - the reason you put ketchup on a hamburger. I was…

— Michael Mina

“Cooking is like playing a violin. The bow is a tool used to play, as is the knives and other tools you…

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Two of the actors, Sean Bean and Orlando Bloom, have been caught between two landslides and are now trapped in a tiny…

— Peter Jackson

I began reading cook books when I was six, cause my father had hundreds of cook books in the kitchen. I was…

— Richard Simmons

“Without another word, we began to eat. I was hungry, but no appetite would excuse the way we set upon those dishes.…

— Eli Brown

Too often, tributes to the home-cooked meal assume every family has a schedule that gets everyone home by 5:30 P.M. And too…

— Stephanie Coontz

I always knew I could be a bit on the greedy side; I love cooking and eating and there in front of…

— Dave Myers

Never eat in a place called 'Mom's'.

— Nelson Algren

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

— Cassandra Clare

Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?

— Curly Howard

Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.

— Samuel Johnson

For me cooking is a pleasure, it's a relaxing thing.

— Sophie Dahl

Mum's cooking is still the best thing. It's very healthy.

— Son Heung-min

I studied cooking in Spain after college.

— Jose Garces

I love being at home and cooking and baking.

— Blake Lively