If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, and writing… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
As a kid I had a very unhealthy diet. I try not to place any blame. Mum was uneducated in cooking. She… — Joe Wicks Copy Share Image
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“They drained the red-tinged sherry from the cranberries, tasting as they went. Isabelle dropped the swollen berries like a long ruby necklace… — Erica Bauermeister Copy Share Image
“Cooking without remuneration" and "slaving over a hot stove" are activities separated mostly by a frame of mind. The distinction is crucial.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I love every minute in the kitchen with my kids, even the mess (I've learned to embrace it!). I find that in… — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
When one part of the brain makes a choice, other parts can quickly invent a story to explain why. If you show… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“Next, 'baccala marechiara,' codfish with a sauce of tomatoes, capers, olives, garlic, and parsley, a lighter version of her puttanesca. She laid… — Brian O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Chemists are, on the whole, like physicists, only 'less so'.They don't make quite the same wonderful mistakes, and much what they do… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
[Our family is] a wonderfully messy arrangement, in which relationships overlap, underlie, support, and oppose one another. It didn't always come together… — Marge M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book . . . The recipes were to be the routine ones: how… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Cooking is in an honest profession where you cannot hide and let others do the work for you. You have to show… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
I cooked for real when filming 'The Holdovers.' Reading the script, it felt very quiet and intimate - like when you're snowed… — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
Most baby books also tend to romanticize the mother who stays at home, as if she really spends her entire day doing… — Susan Chira Copy Share Image
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
I'm the joke of the family with cooking because I've never done it - primarily because I've been surrounded by people who… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
“Maybe the cat has fallen into the stew, or the lettuce has frozen, or the cake has collapsed. Eh bien, tant pis.… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking.… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
“I’m a big believer in cooking your own meals. It makes it much easier not only to ensure that you eat fresh… — Ori Hofmekler Copy Share Image
Cooking isn’t taught,” Patch said. “It’s inherent. Either you’ve got it or you don’t. Like chemistry. You think you’re ready for chemistry?”… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Social justice is what faces you in the morning. It is awakening in a house with adequate water supply, cooking facilities and… — Mick Dodson Copy Share Image
Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of… — Kathryn Hughes Copy Share Image
Cooking is an art and patience a virtue. Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There… — Keith Floyd Copy Share Image
Now the Thanksgiving meal is just so unnecessarily difficult. I mean even mashed potatoes - it's like the most difficult kind of,… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I was born with a lot of horsepower. There was a lot cooking inside me, a lot of energy, and Dad was… — Richard Boone Copy Share Image
“Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was willing to make… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“She said she doesn't like your cooking. She said she'd rather eat a microwave dinner from the convenience store instead of something… — Kanoko Sakurakouji Copy Share Image
I'm removed in my real life, and unable to express certain things face to face. So I have always found myself in… — Jenny Lewis Copy Share Image
What I like about cooking is that, so long as you follow the recipe exactly, everything always turns out perfect. It’s too… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
I tell people all the time, you have to be in love with that pot. You have to put all your love… — Leah Chase Copy Share Image
All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've discovered that lessons in cooking come in two forms. There are the lessons that you never fully learn;… — J. Kenji Lopez-Alt Copy Share Image
I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours… — Rachael Ray Copy Share Image
Clean hearts and healthful food, exercise, early sleep and fresh air, wholesome recreation and meditation combined with optimism that comes from fighting… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“In fact, people who posses not magic at all can instill their home-cooked meals with love and security and health, transforming ingredients… — Juliet Blackwell Copy Share Image
I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art.… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image