Cooking Quotes · Page 32

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the…

— Gelett Burgess

The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.

— Robin Williams

If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.

— Erma Bombeck

I love a nice cooking show. It's as aesthetically pleasing as any other thing that tempts the senses, I suppose.

— Janeane Garofalo

Books make great gifts because they expand your horizons and keep you cooking.

— Emeril Lagasse

I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.

— Stevie Smith

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

— George Bernard Shaw

The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.

— Lela Rose

He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides…

— Charles Dickens

My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got…

— Kenneth Cranham

You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got…

— Nadia Giosia

Lyon is full of temperamental gourmets, eternally engaged in a never-ending search for that imaginary, perfect, unknown little back-street bistro, where one…

— Roy Andries De Groot

I was taught from childhood of the sanctity of food. Not a piece of bread could be thrown away without kissing it…

— Attia Hosain

If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it…

— Jonathan Swift

I went to L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical…

— Carla Hall

Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories.…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Better be careful talking about how good my cooking is. Roslyn might get jealous.” The vampire madam let out a soft laugh.…

— Jennifer Estep

He walked out of the hospital into the sun, into open air for the first time in months, out of the green-lit…

— Michael Ondaatje

“ First, the aromatics. Soon the kitchen was filled with the scent of freshly chopped fennel, garlic, herbs, orange peel, thyme, and…

— Joanne Harris

I can't remember ever cooking food to impress a woman. The idea's quite cheesy and sort of makes my skin crawl. But…

— Bob Mortimer

I think my cooking these days is a lot more relaxed from when I was working in professional kitchens. Spending time in…

— Curtis Stone

It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family…

— Gabrielle Hamilton

I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty…

— Voltaire

The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent…

— Rebecca West

I want people to start to think. I always say that: You've got to think before cooking.

— Dominique Crenn

What can you say about Guy's cooking that hasn't been printed on a packet of cigarettes?

— Willie Geist

What is cooking? 'Cooking' is a loose term. It's understanding energy or the lack thereof.

— Homaro Cantu

The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a…

— Louis Nizer

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

— Dolly Parton

There’s something sexy in cooking for a man who likes my food. Am I growing up?

— Joseph Boyden

The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked

— Anonymous

One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.

— Thomas Keller

I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.

— Jeff Smith

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

— Henry David Thoreau

I did 'Midnight's Children' and 'Cooking with Stella' when I was at the peak of my career.

— Shriya Saran

I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.

— Coolio

I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.

— Louise Brown

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

To spoil the food too many cooks are not required, one is enough.

— Adhir Amadavadi