I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Cooking requires time, effort and fuel: increasing numbers of people I've visited can't even afford to turn on the kettle for a… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
When I entertain, I want to have fun. But I'm also a control person. I don't go in for those everyone-in-the-kitchen cooking… — Geoffrey Zakarian Copy Share Image
I'm going to be a happy housewife. I'm going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife… — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
Grilling, broiling, barbecuing - whatever you want to call it - is an art, not just a matter of building a pyre… — James Beard Copy Share Image
All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you… — John Gould Copy Share Image
As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The mental disposition of the one who prepares the food is transmitted to all those who consume it. Therefore, as far as… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he… — Juana Inés de la Cruz Copy Share Image
I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Now alongside Scovell, John eased preserved peaches out of galliot pots of syrup and picked husked walnuts from puncheons of salt. He… — Lawrence Norfolk Copy Share Image
My life has been sadly lacking in snails. I can't clearly remember any first-hand encounters. The best thing I can come up… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
In Ethiopia, where I was born, all the cooks are women. When I grew up in Sweden, my mom and my grandmother… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I used to work as a volunteer in a hospice, but I don't have any nursing skills or cooking skills or anything,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
When I'm in a good mood I like to cook. But I don't like saying it in public because I find myself… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
My restaurant is an expression of myself - my fantasies. Where I've been, and where I want to be. I think of… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
Mastering one recipe is better than mastering too many. Learn something and own it, and you'll feel so much better about it.… — Tom Douglas Copy Share Image
I like routine, and cooking became a ritual when I was modelling in New York. My life was nomadic, so making supper… — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
It's really quite a situation. It's ridiculous. I make $200,000, $300,000 a night. For years I was working little dives, and if… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
Most of cooking is the labor of chopping. Give yourself a break. Pretend you're on a cooking show and have all your… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
At 19, I went to live in the Philippines for three years as a U.S. Air Force 'dependent spouse.' I lived off-base… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
The least amount of oil you can use when you're cooking and the least amount of dairy you can use when you're… — Antonia Lofaso Copy Share Image
“In its essence, a meal is a creative act that has its genesis in the mind of someone who cares enough to… — Andi Ashworth Copy Share Image
Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
Cooking? Oh we were great, you'd take anything and melt cheese on it, and the one who could guess what it was… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream… — Bobby Flay Copy Share Image
When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly… — Marie-Antoine Careme Copy Share Image
I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Honestly, I think that ghee is underrated. I love using clarified butter. I think it makes vegetables taste so good, especially when… — Kiernan Shipka Copy Share Image
The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
Chipotle is based on a very simple idea: We start with great ingredients, prepare them using classic cooking techniques, and serve them… — Steve Ells Copy Share Image
The objective.. is to achieve a comfort level between the cook/artist/performer and the customer/viewer/diner. And if we can achieve that, and the… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator… — Euell Gibbons Copy Share Image
If Harvard officials ban the microfridge, it will leave undergraduates without any cooking appliances at all allowed in their rooms. — Parker Conrad Copy Share Image
Our big problem is that high-calorie, special-occasion foods like cakes, fried foods, etc. have become so cheap and easy that we eat… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image