Cooking Quotes · Page 28

I don't like cooking and don't cook until I am forced to. Then I expect everyone around to appreciate what I dish…

— Urmila Matondkar

I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

— Red Smith

There's so much that can be learned from French cooking, especially really traditional, more modest meals.

— Antoni Porowski

“I could smell the food fill up my hunger before the order was even placed.”

— Phindiwe Nkosi

My hobby is cooking and I cooked because of you , all I want is you cook also for me.

— Mitch Alapan

Most pumpkin dishes involve scooping out the seeds, cutting off the skin, and chopping up the flesh before cooking.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I…

— Gustave Flaubert

“A good spice often deceives us into thinking that someone is a good cook.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet…

— Robertson Davies

Wine was given us by God, not that we might be drunken, but that we might be sober. It is the best…

— Saint John Chrysostom

Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un.

— Marian Burros

At some point during every cooking class I teach, I do my signature move: dramatically add handful upon handful of salt to…

— Samin Nosrat

And I'm autistic, which means I can be hyperfocused but also all over the place at the same time. I think I'm…

— Jack Monroe

They're flowing out of Cook into the fringes. People move out of Chicago and into suburban Cook County and now they're losing…

— Kenny Johnson

There's a reason I write articles and go out for good dinners: because I'm better at research than cooking. And there are…

— David Autor

I love cooking shows! I'm not a bad cook myself, but I must say that I admire the creativity of those young…

— Leila Slimani

Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network. When I opened Spago, I had the kitchen in the…

— Wolfgang Puck

Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back…

— Ray Bradbury

The jelly - the jam and the marmalade, And the cherry-and quince-'preserves' she made! And the sweet-sour pickles of peach and pear,…

— James Whitcomb Riley

Think about your first kiss - if you did it and it was bloody awful, you might not do it again. It's…

— Ainsley Harriott

It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite... fun, but…

— Arne Garborg

“When I got home I peered down at the lobster to see how he was doing. The inner plastic bag was sucked…

— Julie Powell

There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point…

— Hilaire Belloc

The issue I have is that the cooking techniques are up for questioning, today more than ever before. If you waterbath beef…

— Gordon Ramsay

“But since soup mainly involves tossing everything in a pot and waiting, it's one of my better dishes.”

— Suzanne Collins

We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Cooking is not effortless. To get a recipe that feels effortless is really hard.

— Claire Saffitz

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

— Charles Bowden

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

— Margaret Deland

Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.

— M. F. K. Fisher

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

— Peg Bracken

Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.

— Jim Davis

A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.

— Michel de Montaigne

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

— Harriet Van Horne

“Without change, one special act [extra] each day, changes everything. The start of good things.”

— Psaexaristw

Stopping the junk food and Eating well is partially about cooking well and having the skills to do that.

— Gordon Ramsay

An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

— George du Maurier

When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

— John Harington

Sometimes I skip breakfast, pop to the butcher and get sunburned while cooking meat.

— Russell Howard

I find cooking to be the one thing that relaxes me. I don't get to do it often . . .

— Lenny Kravitz