Cooking Quotes · Page 20

Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.

— Jonathan Swift

I will not move my army without onions.

— Ulysses S. Grant

Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.

— Philip Sidney

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

— Barbara Johnson

Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?

— Paul Claudel

Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

— Henry Ward Beecher

(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.

— Nigella Lawson

I hate the idea that cooking should be a celebration or a party.

— Christopher Kimball

I take a cooking class everywhere I travel. I find it's the best way to get to know a culture.

— Blake Lively

I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious.

— George Carlin

Cooking is a life skill. We need to eat every day so why not find out about what you're putting into your…

— William Katt

Living on the road can make you feel quite displaced. Cooking a meal on the tour bus for everyone makes it home.

— Grace Potter

One way I get my kids to try new things is by cooking with them.

— Ayesha Curry

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.”

— H.L. Mencken

“How she loved a man who would fit his life around the seasoning needs of a fish.”

— Susan May Warren

“I had a dream about you last night. You were at my door. We had forgotten what we used to fight about.…

— Crystal Hudson

A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty…

— Willard Spiegelman

If you're cooking for a woman, make a good risotto and a salad. If you don't have time to make desert you…

— Wolfgang Puck

“I love Italy. For hundreds of years, if not centuries, the people of italy (Italians) have been living here." [Audrey's insight]”

— Tom Gleisner

I love the idea of cooking, but I don't like using recipe books, so I'll put a mish-mash together, and it might…

— Trinny Woodall

I took cooking classes when I was younger; girls weren't interested in me, and I thought I may be alone for the…

— Michael Jordan

I'm Puerto Rican! You can never take my rice, pork, and beans away. Plus, I love to cook. I'm one of those…

— Joan Smalls

The cooking side is the easier way to be creative. On the policy side, it's harder to think of new approaches to…

— Sam Kass

The Little Paris Kitchen' was about my experience of living and cooking in Paris, 'My little French Kitchen' about my travels around…

— Rachel Khoo

I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate a wide diversity in…

— James Arthur

I love cooking, and I can make real good rajma chawal. It is a time consuming process and only for the consumption…

— Nimrat Kaur

The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle…

— Julia Child

“Many Detroiters, for example, are beginning to see urban agriculture as a real part of the solution; to grow things right where…

— Jaye Beeler

You can cook a limited number of sous vide recipes in a beer cooler, but if the person you're buying for wants…

— J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size.…

— Fran Lebowitz

While there are many varieties of grills, each with their own virtues to be sure, I prefer the standard Weber kettle grill.…

— Barton Seaver

I don't just loving cooking in a vacuum, as it were; I love cooking for people, with people, and laughing.

— Ainsley Harriott

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

— William Wordsworth

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.

— Anonymous

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

— Jamaica Kincaid

I baked the coffee cake recipe from 'The Joy of Cooking' over and over again when I was a kid.

— Alex Guarnaschelli

Kitchens are for conversation. They're not just for cooking; they're for conversations.

— Frank Delaney

My sister would say I'm a feeder because I like cooking for people.

— Tamara Ecclestone

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I love cooking. I like to make lasagna - its authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue.

— Sullivan Stapleton