Cooking Quotes · Page 23

Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.

— Fran Lebowitz

[On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.

— Marcella Hazan

I will pursue my passion of cooking every day until my hands fall off and I lose all sense of smell and…

— Nicole Trunfio

The real thing people miss in vegetarian cooking is fat. Fat is flavor. It is delicious.

— Damaris Phillips

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

— Benjamin Franklin

I wanted to come up with a hybrid show of sorts that wasn't your traditional 'dump and stir' type of cooking show.

— Debi Mazar

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

— Ambrose Bierce

One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food

— Edna Lewis

As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes…

— Leslie Newman

The thing about cooking is it's so interesting to watch. I don't know why, but if you go to somebody's house and…

— Christopher Walken

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating ...

— Umberto Eco

Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

If your version of pub food is microwaving a pie and some baked beans, then yeah, it's really complicated cooking. But if…

— Tom Kerridge

The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out…

— Nick Harkaway

You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even,…

— Elspeth Huxley

“Obesity rates are inversely correlated with the amount of time in food preparation. The more time a nation devotes to food preparation…

— Michael Pollan

I would say, probably 7 or 8 years into my cooking career, it stopped being about just food for me. Food's really…

— Samin Nosrat

I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster…

— Katy B

When you say you're not a feminist, if feminism hadn't existed, and you didn't live in a feminist world, you wouldn't be…

— Caitlin Moran

If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his…

— Ferran Adria

Nourishment is not just “nutrition.” Nourishment is the nutrients in the food, the taste, the aroma, the ambiance of the room, the…

— Marc David

Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the…

— Lewis Mumford

Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values…

— Pope Pius XII

Soha does not like cooking but I like to cook. And since we are in the same profession, we have the same…

— Kunal Khemu

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.

— Jennifer Lee

The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat

— Frank Muir

For me, I am very much a champion of home cooking and home cooks.

— Samin Nosrat

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.

— Gordon Ramsay

The whole idea is to earn the flavor. No one gives it to you.

— Jamie Oliver

In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.

— Curnonsky

It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it.

— Alice Waters

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

— Sarah Zettel

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.

— Stephen King

I don't do much cooking, but one of my favorite dishes to eat is my wife's macaroni and cheese.

— Ice Cube

I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

— Aristophanes

Inexpensive and forgiving, kosher salt is fantastic for everyday cooking and tastes pure.

— Samin Nosrat

When I started to use fewer ingredients in my cooking, I was reminded of the uncomplicated flavours of my childhood.

— John Whaite

Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.

— Alain Ducasse

Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.

— Daniel Boulud