Cooking Quotes · Page 35

I love cooking fajitas. I'm from Texas, and it's not a difficult thing to do, but a lot of people burn the…

— Vinnie Paul

“Celery as celery was bad. Celery fried was the work of Satan.”

— Kristen Ashley

I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.

— Michael Ruhlman

“I'm not very domestic. For years my family thought mold was a frosting.”

— Martha Bolton

One of my dad's biggest passions is cooking, so we always had good food at home.

— Bill Skarsgard

Hunger is not only the best cook, but also the best physician.

— Portuguese Proverb

When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out.

— Tommy Lasorda

...cassoulet, like life itself, is not so simple as it seems.

— Paula Wolfert

I started cooking around 9 years old. I would make crepes at home for my parents. By 15 years old, I had…

— Jacques Torres

I loved seeing my mom put her own twist on years-old family recipes and also create new dishes. This made me develop…

— Camila Alves

You have to respect the culture you are cooking in, yes, but you have to respect the palate you are cooking for,…

— Ranveer Brar

Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of…

— William Booth

Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than…

— Patience Gray

When you meet someone, ask about what hobby they have, not what they do. People always ask me about cooking, but I…

— Wolfgang Puck

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To…

— Oscar Wilde

One of the things we say... is, 'Do what you know helps you.' And so for me, that might be painting. For…

— Karen Pence

In my life I see no difference between making pots, cooking and growing vegetables. They are all so related. However, there is…

— Toshiko Takaezu

I am usually cooking at least four times a week if I am home. The easiest thing that I do a lot…

— Leonard Slatkin

...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm…

— Pliny the Elder

I can make dough in a machine faster than I can make it by hand, but I want to make it by…

— Thomas Keller

Young people want to be famous before they know how to cook, before they know how to treat people, before they know…

— Wolfgang Puck

Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction,…

— Lord Byron

Although the plantain is a staple ingredient in cuisines around the world, its not as popular in America as the banana just…

— Sohla El-Waylly

For me, directing is sort of like cooking or something. You know that you're making this interesting recipe while you're putting all…

— Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr

In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.

— Fernand Point

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

— Anonymous

I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.

— Christine Lagarde

Cooking a dish is fine; cooking it under pressure is a completely different ballgame.

— Gordon Ramsay

I sometimes compare making a film to cooking. Some dishes need to be stewed, while others need to be fried.

— Wong Kar-wai

My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to…

— Daniel Craig

I love cooking and baking in my free time and getting outside and walking around, as well as shopping and eating.

— Devon Windsor

I didn't open a restaurant, but I did go to a few cooking schools. It was too much like hard work!

— Christine McVie

The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.

— E. B. White

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.

— Richard Harris Barham

Food doesn't exist, but can only be invented. And reinvented.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.

— Italo Calvino

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

— Nigella Lawson

Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.

— Waverley Root

I simply cannot imagine why anyone would eat something slimy served in an ashtray.

— Henry Beard