Cooking Quotes · Page 21

I wanted it to look like real cooking in someone's real home or just so out-of-there bizarre that it would be fun.

— Anthony Bourdain

“Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.”

— John Kennedy Toole

In my generation, there was no sushi school, no cooking school, so people have to learn from working.

— Nobu Matsuhisa

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

— Ann-Margret

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

— Moliere

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

— Marcel Boulestin

I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

— Akshay Kumar

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

— Julia Child

Giving nuts and seeds a few minutes in the oven deepens their flavors and improves their texture - and it provides more…

— Sohla El-Waylly

I'm a huge fan of Asian cooking in general. I love shabu shabu, and I love hibachi. It's kind of like an…

— Kim Shaw

Gore is nature's way of saying, "There are too many human beings on the planet, and I'm trying to rectify this any…

— Douglas Coupland

Friends have warned me that I can be a bully in the kitchen. With every fledgling relationship, I'm anxiously aware that the…

— Samin Nosrat

People come to Nashville where I live and they say, 'What's a great Southern restaurant?' Well, you got to know the right…

— John Carter Cash

The only kind of restaurant I could imagine doing would be the extraordinarily snooty restaurant with three or four tables, and I…

— Steve Albini

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement…

— Emily Post

I cook so that there is no absence. I cook so that I am always there, even when I'm gone, even when…

— Tom Junod

I always liked the stress, the real high-stakes, get-the-orders-out line-cook job, as well as the ordering of the produce and everything -…

— Brian Reitzell

You know, this is really a way of cooking. It's not my way. I'm deeply influenced by the Mediterranean way of being.…

— Sally Schneider

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a…

— David Whyte

It’s just starting. I think it’s going to take another year and a half to get up to critical mass, but everybody…

— Andrew Zimmern

Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The first thing Julian wanted to do in life, well, before he wanted to be an artist and then a musician, was…

— Cynthia Lennon

I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to…

— Ted Allen

“I sliced the chicken with my fingers and put it into a small skillet to warm, separate a couple of eggs, and…

— Stacey Ballis

By the time my brother was 8, he was cooking breakfast and dinner for us. And I was 5.

— Michael Beasley

Food: Part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories.

— Beverley Baxter

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

— Julia Child

To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

— Brendan Behan

If youre serious about cooking, baking, or life in general, then you need a scale.

— Sohla El-Waylly

The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.

— Redd Foxx

All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.

— Hugh Casson

While I'm not very talented at cooking, I am very talented at eating.

— Jens Voigt

I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking.

— Liza Minnelli

If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.

— Meshell Ndegeocello

Cooking is a great way to get back in touch with things that brought us comfort.

— Lizabeth Scott

Sometimes while you're cooking it's messy but the outcome is good. The end result is all that counts.

— Peter Facinelli

I love candy, but when I'm cooking, I will use Splenda Naturals to try and cut back on sugar.

— Brooklyn Decker

I hope that if you're cooking two nights a week, you can try for three.

— Michael Pollan

I'm always cooking and can be found in the kitchen rustling up something for myself and the boys.

— Emma Weymouth

I'm not a 'strong warrior queen' like people think. I spend most of my day cooking and doing things with my sons.

— Kola Boof